ISBN : 9780443235061
Author : Mark H. Swartz
Publisher : Elsevier
Year : 2025
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Key Features 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 An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud