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.