Sapira s Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis [Hardcover]

Jane M. Orient (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0683307142 | ISBN-13: 978-0683307146 | Edition: Second

Now in its revised and updated Second Edition, Sapira's Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis teaches the artful science of the clinical examination. An emphasis is placed on the physical examination, which when skillfully carried out can lead to an accurate diagnosis more quickly and less expensively than relying on technology alone.Major changes to this edition include extensive revisions to the musculoskeletal examination and the extremities and new photographs. More information about sensitivity and specificity of particular findings is included.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 682 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0683307142
• ISBN-13: 978-0683307146
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,326,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wise and interesting mentor., April 27, 2003

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R. Spitzer (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sapira s Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis (Hardcover)

I have an enormous personal medical library, and this is hands down the best book I own. It is like making rounds with the most interesting, learned, and studious clinician you have ever met -- though I suspect many of us have never really met anyone of Sapira's polymathic virtuosity. The book is intelligent, clear, scientific, and fun. It doesn't read like a textbook -- it reads like a one-on-one seminar with a wise mentor; one who has "seen it all" and knows how to teach. Read this book, and you will be a far better clinician for having done so. Don't read it for Boards or exams; read it for your edification. I am an experienced neurologist -- and learned several neurological "pearls" from this book.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book..., March 28, 2008

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Ian S. Harris (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis (Hardcover)

Don't buy this book if you're looking for a standard textbook of physical examination. For that purpose, I would recommend DeGowin & DeGowin or the various specialty books (I just can't recommend Bates). If you're put off by historical digressions and occasional amusing bits of pedantry, look elsewhere;you're missing the point of this text. On the other hand, if you want to learn to be a doctor (or a better doctor), you absolutely MUST buy this book.

This is easily the best medical book I've ever come across (and I've even edited one). It is not, nor is it intended to be, a standard textbook. Instead, it is an intriguing, challenging, inspiring, and thoroughly enjoyable book that is better suited to the nightstand than the medical library. More important than its impressive compendium of facts is the way in which it reflects the passion, dedication, intellectual curiosity, and, believe it or not, fun, that should characterize medical practice. These qualities seem no longer to be emphasized in medical curricula in the US and are rarely in evidence in modern clinical training programs. If you're not fortunate enough to make rounds daily with a master clinician of "the old school", this book is an able substitute.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Companion to any Physcian !, May 2, 2001

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Dr. Rahul Kumar (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sapira s Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis (Hardcover)

I tend to disagree with the first reviewer. Sapira has not included anything that is irrelevant. He has just made an attempt to let us know what all can be achieved by using clinical methods, an art that the young generation is forgetting due to increasing dependency on investigations. I compliment him on his great foresight and hope to read every edition of his great book. In countries like India, Physical examination and clinical methods are still the mainstay of diagnosis and treatment. Contrary to what is written the earlier review, I would urge the author to include more interesting anecdotes that give us an idea about the history of medicine.