RT Book, Section
A1 Simel, David L.
A1 Rennie, Drummond
SR Print(0)
ID 1170154805
T1 Foreword
T2 The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071590303
LK jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170154805
RD 2024/04/25
AB I  remember  my  introduction  to  the  medical  history  and  clinical  examination  as  the  most  exciting  moments  of  my  early  career.  As  each  item  in  the  history  and  physical  examination  was  explained  and  given  meaning  and  significance,  I  believed  that  after  the  long  preclinical  years  I  had  at  last  reached  the  threshold  of  becoming  a  physician.  I  could  begin  to  hold  more  than  a  comforting  conversation  with  a  patient.  I  could  use  my  ears,  eyes,  and  hands  to  disclose  the  patient's  problem  and  so  begin  to  be  of  actual  use  to  a  real  patient.  As  I  polished  my  skills,  it  did  not  occur  to  me  that  the  divination  of  all  those  signs  and  symptoms  was  anything  but  an  art:  the  epitome  of  the  art  of  medicine.