Mark E. Silverman & John Willis Hurst : Clinical Skills for Adult Primary Care

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.