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Bates' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking

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this is the best book for study at all levels of medical education with systematic examination tech. and a basic understanding of the underlying process preceeding ,giving the clinician a good review of the system in check and also important points for counselling which have to be touched upon before the encounter closes..

This is an excellent textbook!!! I have used this book as a student and to help prepare my student for a health assessment check off and for their test. This book has been a valued resource in my library for the past 10 years. I have purchased 3 editions of this textbook over this period of time. I highly recommend this textbook for advanced students and professional healthcare members.

It is a book worth keeping all the time around you, in the clinic, in the ward and everywhere. I being a homeopathic doctor felt that in the beginning the text teaching almost everything needed to hunt for the clues, symptoms and signs to pin-point the problme and later serves as a reference. This new edition has many added features along with the all previous ones. I usually didn't need to consult anyother book while using it.

This book arrived in New Zealand well packaged, undamaged and in better condition than I expected for a second hand book. My only gripe is probably not the fault of Amazon. Every purchase via Amazon takes an incredibly long time to arrive in New Zealand. Amazon do give an estimated delivary date but I fail to see how it can take 3 to 4 weeks to post items intenationally.

Could there be a better way to put phsyical exam in a book? The pictures are great and the step by step approach is great for people just learning the physical exam or people that need to brush up on specific aspects of an exam.

I am a second year med student. This guide is okay. It is very basic, but has some great tables. There are better resources out there for physical examination skills though.

I used this book along with Mosby's Physical Examination book and easily passed my Physical Diagnosis class in chiropractic college. These two book also served as excellent references for Parts II, III and IV of the national chiropractic boards. I also found Dr. Leonardi's National Board of Chiropractic Part II Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers, to be an excellent source for the boards. I also found Leonardi's Part III Study Guide and Part IV study guides to be right on the mark. These books helped me with passing the boards. Bates Book is needed as a great building block for learning Physical Examination--Heart, head and Neck, Chest and lungs, abdomen etc.

This book is good just because I could not find any better book.
It has good colored pictures but pictures are for extere pathologies, there is not much practical pictures. What is also missing is key observations. Yes there are some warnings for key observations but not enough. observations that are in the margins of the book should be the scope of the book. Explanations are very broad, for example says "look for asymetry or discoloratio, etc but it does not say very often than what. it helps for note taking but does not help much for diagnostics.there are some tables that guides you but those tables are very extensive.May be I was expecting more that what it should be.

Once again, the teacher recommended we buy the newest version.

I'm a rebel and a poor student.

The newer editions have nicer pictures, but an A is an A in the class.