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Title: Bates' Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking (Book with CD-ROM) by Lynn S. Bickley, Peter G. Szilagyi ISBN: 0-7817-3511-4 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $72.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Still looking for a good physical exam book
Comment: This book was written for no one in mind. It reads as a single run-on sentence from page one to the end. You cannot learn physical exam from it (or from any other book -- you simply have to practice) and Bates is a rather mediocre reference if you need to find out how to examine this or that.
Physical exam is a dying art and I'm yet to find a semi-decent modern text on the subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for chiropractic students
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but maybe you'll want better.
Comment: 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.
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Title: Bates' Pocket Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn S. Bickley, Peter G. Szilagyi, Barbara Bates ISBN: 0781738180 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease by Ramzi S. Cotran, Vinay Kumar, Tucker Collins, Stanley L. Robbins ISBN: 072167335X Publisher: W B Saunders Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $88.95 |
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Title: Basic & Clinical Pharmacology by Bertram G. Katzung ISBN: 0838505988 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange Pub. Date: 21 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Clinically Oriented Anatomy by Keith L. Moore, Arthur F. Dalley ISBN: 0683061410 Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $68.95 |
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Title: Pathology: Board Review Series by Arthur S. Schneider, Philip A. Szanto ISBN: 0683302655 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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