The Pediatric Patient
Chapter 21 The Pediatric Patient1 Children are not like men or women; they are almost as different creatures, in many respects, as if they never were to be the one…
The Peripheral Vascular System
Chapter 12 The Peripheral Vascular System Veins which by the thickening of their tunicles in the old restrict the passage of blood, and by this lack of nourishment destroy their…
The Breast
Chapter 13 The Breast1 The shape of the breast is like a gourd. They are round for holding blood to be changed into milk. … They have teats, that the…
Diagnostic Reasoning in Physical Diagnosis
Chapter 24 Diagnostic Reasoning in Physical Diagnosis1 Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. One of the chief reasons for this uncertainty is the increasing variability…
The Pregnant Patient
Chapter 20 The Pregnant Patient1 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … . Charles Dickens (1812–1870) General Considerations As of 2008, the average birth…
The Geriatric Patient
Chapter 22 The Geriatric Patient Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972) General Considerations The geriatric patient is an individual 65 years of age…
The Head and Neck
Chapter 6 The Head and Neck A lady, aged twenty, became affected with some symptoms which were supposed to be hysterical. … After she had been in this nervous state…
Caring for Patients in a Culturally Diverse Society
Chapter 27 Caring for Patients in a Culturally Diverse Society What the scalpel is to the surgeon, words are to the clinician. … [T]he conversation between doctor and patient is…
The Interviewer’s Questions
Chapter 1 The Interviewer’s Questions What is spoken of as a “clinical picture” is not just a photograph of a man sick in bed; it is an impressionistic painting of…
