Bates' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking (Book with CD-ROM) [Hardcover]

Lynn S. Bickley MD (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781735114 | ISBN-13: 978-0781735117 | Publication Date: August 15, 2002 | Edition: Eighth

A classic in assessment, this Eighth Edition revision still provides the best foundation for learning and performing physical examination techniques and history taking. Features a clean, straightforward approach that retains the two-column format placing examination procedures and proper techniques on the left, and common abnormalities and possible interpretations on the right. Its highly visual four-color design includes 400 new pieces of art and formerly featured black and white photos into color. Also in this edition are four completely revised chapters including pediatrics rewritten by specialist Peter G. Szilaygi, MD. A CD-ROM, Heart Sounds, is available in the back of the book and a separate book of case studies for further study.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 880 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Eighth edition (August 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781735114
• ISBN-13: 978-0781735117
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good overall book but not for ortho exam, February 1, 2006

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This review is from: Bates' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking (Book with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)

I liked this book but the one thing I wanted from it that it didn't have was a good musculoskeletal exam. For that, I highly recommend Pocket Guide to Musculoskeletal Diagnosis. Hoppenfeld is okay too, but Pocket Guide is better. I like Bates as a reference but it's not very practical for day-to-day use.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Physical Examination textbook., November 19, 2002

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Jonathan Smaley (NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bates' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking (Book with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)

I am a first year medical student and use this book in our physical diagnosis course. I found this book easy to read with good illustrations. Diagrams were useful in understanding the text. I found the heart sounds CD to be extremely useful in understanding the cardiac cycle and how it relates to heart murmurs. I haven't seen other physical diagnosis textbooks but I can say that this one is very user friendly.

28 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but maybe you'll want better., January 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Bates' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking (Book with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)

This is an excellent and thorough text on the physical exam. The only problem is that its based on "the way things have always been done" instead of emerging controlled trials evaluating H+P techniques objectively. You might consider purchasing one of the new evidence-based medicine physical exam texts that are beginning to pop up (Ask your docs about recommendations). Preview them first, because not all of them teach the actual techniques or present the differential diagnosis of findings as well as Bates. They do, however, actually include numbers (percentages, Likelihood ratios, etc) to tell you how sensitive and specific (read how useful) these methods really are. These numbers will be critical to you later in evidence-based practice (which is not what all physicians now practice) in order to determine the pre- and post-test (lab, X-ray, etc.) probabilities of your differential diagnoses.
Buying an evidence-based text now would save you from having to buy both like I did.