RT Book, Section A1 Simel, David L. A1 Rennie, Drummond SR Print(0) ID 1170154819 T1 Preface 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=1170154819 RD 2023/02/01 AB I've never met a medical student who lacked passion for making a diagnosis. And, among all the diagnoses a student might make, clinching the case right at the bedside is the most treasured. The same holds true not only for physicians in practice but also for all those involved in caring for patients-physician assistants, nurses, and physical therapists must each constantly assess their patient and consider what's wrong. The Rational Clinical Examination series, published in JAMA since 1992 and collected in this book, should appeal to anyone who wonders about the meaning of a patient's symptoms and signs. Many indispensable textbooks instruct learners on "how" to elicit the medical history and perform the physical examination, but we suspect that, once the "how" is learned, clinicians only infrequently return to what was one of their favored textbooks during their training years. When I ask clinicians to recall the book they used for physical diagnosis class in medical school, there is no pause before they state DeGowin and DeGowin, Bates, Mosby, Schwartz, or another of a select few. We see The Rational Clinical Examination as an essential companion to, and not a replacement for, these time-honored texts of the "complete" medical history and physical examination.