Offering a compassionate, humanistic approach in this critical area, Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, Nineth Edition, helps you master each aspect of the art and science of interviewing and physical examination. This highly regarded text clearly teaches how your interpersonal awareness is just as crucial during the patient interview and physical exam as your level of skill―and why clinical competence in this area is essential for physicians, osteopathic physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and all other members of the healthcare profession. From cover to cover, you’ll learn fundamental skills and concepts that result in more accurate diagnoses, more effective patient management, and better patient outcomes.

• Offers fully revised content throughout, including clear, easy-to-understand explanations of interviewing and examination techniques, clinical presentations, pathophysiology, complementary and alternative medicine, and physical diagnosis standards and tests
• Includes three new chapters: The Transgender Patient; Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Encounters: Opportunities and Challenges; and Telehealth: Adapting Clinical Assessment
• Explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs―which may affect your approach to a patient’s treatment
• Features hundreds of high-quality color images, an easy-to-use design, and detailed descriptions of practical techniques throughout
• Contains new end-of-chapter review questions in most chapters.
• Highlights clinical ethics and professionalism
• Includes more than 6 hours of in-depth instruction, with 40+ updated videos featuring step-by-step aspects of the physical examination for adults, toddlers, and newborns, important interviewing scenarios, and audio of heart and lung sounds
• Features online appendices covering English-to-Spanish Translations Useful in the Medicine Setting, Commonly Misused Substances, Signs and Symptoms of Deficiency States, and more

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Master the art and science of the patient interview and physical examination

Contents

۱. The interviewer’s questions
۲. The patient’s responses
۳. Understanding complementary and alternative medicine
۴. Putting the history together
۵. Anti-racist and anti-oppressive clinical skills
۶. The physical examination
۷. Assessment of nutritional status
۸. The skin
۹. The head and neck
۱۰. The eye
۱۱. The ear and nose
۱۲. The oral cavity and pharynx
۱۳. The chest
۱۴. The heart
۱۵. The peripheral vascular system
۱۶. The breast
۱۷. The abdomen
۱۸. Male genitalia and hernias
۱۹. Female genitalia
۲۰. The musculoskeletal system
۲۱. The nervous system
۲۲. Putting the examination together
۲۳. The pregnant patient
۲۴. The pediatric patient
۲۵. The geriatric patient
۲۶. The transgender patient
۲۷. The acutely ill or injured patient
۲۸. Precision, accuracy, and critical thinking in clinical assessment
۲۹. The clinical record
۳۰. The focused history and physical examination
۳۱. Artificial intelligence in clinical encounters: Opportunities and challenges
۳۲. Telehealth: Adapting clinical assessment
۳۳. Clinical ethics and professionalism

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