Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis |  | Author: Jane M Orient
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Rating:  14 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Fourth Edition
Pages: 688
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ISBN: 1605474118
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.0754
EAN: 9781605474113
ASIN: 1605474118
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The Fourth Edition of this textbook teaches the artful science of the patient interview and the physical examination--from the fundamentals to the most advanced levels. Written in an artful storytelling style, the book describes methods in step-by-step detail, with clinical pearls, vignettes, practical clinical experience, personal history, explanations of the physiologic significance of findings, and extensive discussions of evidence-based medicine. Even with all of today's sophisticated laboratory and imaging technology, a skillfully performed patient interview and physical examination can be a quicker and more cost-effective route to an accurate diagnosis. The Fourth Edition of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis is your guide to gaining the most reliable information from your patients, developing a differential diagnosis and an efficient diagnostic strategy.
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 Sapira -----Bedside diagnosis October 30, 2008
Billie Bernstein (New Rochelle, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
By far the best book ever written on the bedside exam of patients and the differential diagnosis engendered. In 50 years I have used many books in teaching physical diagnosiss; this is the best. It has not been weakened by the addition of Jane Orient. Hurrah for making medicine fun.
 very disappointing September 17, 2008
Elias Nasser
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having read the reviews and wanting to have a definitive text to refer to for physical examination techniques, I have to say I found this book very disappointing.
It it arranged haphazardly and tends to be rather conversational. The diagrams are generally of poor quality.
Textbook of Physical Diagnosis: History and Examination by Swartz is a far better purchase
Don't buy this book... March 28, 2008
Ian S. Harris (San Francisco, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't buy this book if you're looking for a standard textbook of physical examination. For that purpose, I would recommend DeGowin & DeGowin or the various specialty books (I just can't recommend Bates). If you're put off by historical digressions and occasional amusing bits of pedantry, look elsewhere;you're missing the point of this text. On the other hand, if you want to learn to be a doctor (or a better doctor), you absolutely MUST buy this book.
This is easily the best medical book I've ever come across (and I've even edited one). It is not, nor is it intended to be, a standard textbook. Instead, it is an intriguing, challenging, inspiring, and thoroughly enjoyable book that is better suited to the nightstand than the medical library. More important than its impressive compendium of facts is the way in which it reflects the passion, dedication, intellectual curiosity, and, believe it or not, fun, that should characterize medical practice. These qualities seem no longer to be emphasized in medical curricula in the US and are rarely in evidence in modern clinical training programs. If you're not fortunate enough to make rounds daily with a master clinician of "the old school", this book is an able substitute.
Medical Masterpiece for Care-givers,Nurses and Doctors alike January 13, 2008
Magickal Merlin (Death Valley-SoCal)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an engaging and entertaining medical book ,on the heavy topic of bedside diagnosis.This is an excellent book for all hospice caregivers,budding nurses,and potential doctors.For today's health-care workers,this book should be required reading.You can read Dorland's,Taber's and Stedmen's medical encyclopedias;for a quick reference.Yet,this medical text is more descriptive and has many through picture examples,with many historical portraits added too.The cost of this medical text is not cheap.I would shop around for a lower price or a second-hand edition.But then again, it's an incredible wealth of practical medical diagnosis procedures.For those who are expanding your worth as a medical technician,i can only recommend this exceptional excursus on medical symptoms and disease conditions.
 Thought it was bigger! November 2, 2007
drpenicilin (Lyon, France)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
After looking at Bates and DeGowin's, this one seems a good option for my everyday medical reading and practice, but I really thought it would be more "looking" and less "reading"
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