Overview
Main description
"The work is truly noble, to get past the ghosts of dogma and look at the evidence objectively. The authors and contributors are veritable experts with a cold eye for objectivity. They have produced an important work....This is a book for everyone who has studied medicine and found themselves doubting what they have been taught over the years, not that they have been deluded, but that medical traditions have been unquestionably believed because there was no evidence to believe otherwise. The authors have uncovered the truth....This extraordinary, one-of-a-kind book is a valuable addition to every medical library. 5 Stars!"--Doody's Review Service
Table of contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A Primer on the Precision and Accuracy of the Clinical Examination
UPDATE: Primer on Precision and Accuracy
2. Does This Patient Have Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
UPDATE: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
3. Does This Patient Have Abdominal Bruits Useful in the Evaluation of Hypertension?
UPDATE: Abdominal Bruits
4. Does This Patient Have an Alcohol Problem?
UPDATE: Problem Alcohol Drinking
5. Does This Adult Patient Have Appendicitis?
UPDATE: Appendicitis, Adult
6. Does This Patient Have Ascites?
UPDATE: Ascites
7. What Can the Medical History and Physical Examination Tell Us About LowBack Pain?
UPDATE: Low Back Pain
8. Does This Patient Have Breast Cancer?
UPDATE: Breast Cancer
9. Does This Patient Have a Clinically Important Carotid Bruit?
UPDATE: Carotid Bruit
10. Does This Patient Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
UPDATE: Carpal Tunnel
11. Does This Patient Have Abnormal Central Venous Pressure?
UPDATE: Central Venous Pressure
12. Does This Patient Have Acute Cholecystitis?
UPDATE: Cholecystitis
13. Does the Clinical Examination Predict Airflow Limitation?
UPDATE: Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease
14. Does This Patient Have Clubbing?
UPDATE: Clubbing
15. Is This Patient Taking the Treatment as Prescribed?
UPDATE: Compliance and Medication Adherence
16(A). Can the Clinical Examination Diagnose Left-Sided Heart Failure in Adults?
16(B). Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure?
UPDATE: Congestive Heart Failure
17. Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
UPDATE: Death
18(A). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (1998)
18(B). Does This Patient Have Deep Vein Thrombosis? (2006)
UPDATE: Deep Vein Thrombosis
19. Is This Patient Clinically Depressed?
UPDATE: Depression
20. Does This Patient Have a Family History of Cancer?
UPDATE: Family History of Cancer
21. Does This Patient Have a Goiter?
UPDATE: Goiter
22. Does This Patient Have Hepatomegaly?
UPDATE: Hepatomegaly
Author comments
David Simel, MD, MHS,
Chief, Medicine Service
Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC
Drummond Rennie, MD
JAMA
Chicago, IL
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
