Research Catalog

Title

Clinical skills for adult primary care / editors, Mark E. Silverman, J. Willis Hurst ; with 21 contributors.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott-Raven, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Silverman, Mark E.
• Hurst, J. Willis (John Willis), 1920-2011

Description

xv, 319 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

• Here is a practical, reliable guide to the most crucial task confronting the primary care physician: acquiring maximum clinical information through the bedside skills of history-taking and physical examination. Written by a group of experienced clinicians, this book is filled with "pearls" of information that will improve the diagnostic skills of every practitioner.
• In keeping with today's managed-care constraints on laboratory testing, this text emphasizes diagnosis based on clinical findings and judicious use of laboratory tests.

Subjects

• Physical diagnosis > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Physical Examination
• Medical history taking > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Physicians, Family

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Role of the Primary Care Physician / J. Willis Hurst -- 2. The General History / T. Kirkland Garner -- 3. The Recognition of Mental Illness / Dave McAlister Davis -- 4. A Five-Step Approach to an Efficient Physical Examination / Mark E. Silverman -- 5. General Inspection of the Patient / Mark E. Silverman -- 6. Examination of the Skin / Donald J. Pirozzi -- 7. Examination of the Eye / William H. Jarrett II and Mark W. Mohney -- 8. Examination of the Mouth / Wyman P. Sloan III -- 9. Examination of the Ear, Nose, and Paranasal Sinuses / Mark E. Silverman -- 10. Examination of the Thyroid Gland / N. Spencer Welch -- 11. Examination of the Chest / Jonne B. Walter -- 12. Examination of the Heart / Mark E. Silverman -- 13. Examination of the Peripheral Arteries and Veins / Stephen M. Barnett and Mark E. Silverman -- 14. Examination of the Abdomen and Rectum / Valerie J. Jagiella --
• 15. Examination of the Musculoskeletal System / Kimberley E. Wilson and W. Hayes Wilson -- 16. Examination of the Breasts / William E. Mitchell, Jr. -- 17. Examination of the Female Pelvis / Sandra Adamson Fryhofer -- 18. Examination of the Male Genitalia, the Prostate, and for Hernia / William M. Scaljon -- 19. Examination of the Neurologic System / Douglas S. Stuart -- 20. Introduction to Initial Routine Laboratory Testing / Wyman P. Sloan III -- 21. The Biochemical Profile / Bruce F. Walker -- 22. Lipoprotein Screening / Mark E. Silverman -- 23. Routine Complete Blood Count / Robert S. Allen -- 24. Urinalysis / Jerry D. Cooper -- 25. Chest X-Ray Film / William R. Kenny -- 26. Electrocardiography / J. Willis Hurst -- 27. Exercise Electrocardiography / Mark E. Silverman -- 28. Sigmoidoscopy / Randy J. Yanda -- 29. Fetal Occult Blood Testing / Randy J. Yanda -- 30. Mammography / William E. Mitchell, Jr. --
• 31. Prostate-Specific Antigen / Mark E. Silverman -- 32. Pulmonary Function Testing by Office Spirometry / William R. Kenny.

ISBN

0781703271

LCCN

95031276

OCLC

• 70420759
• ocm70420759
• SCSB-4779479

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries