History Taking in Medicine and Surgery - Softcover

Fishman, Jonathan; Fishman, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190462765X ISBN 13: 9781904627654

Publisher: Pastest, 2005

Synopsis

This comprehensive text provides medical students and junior doctors with a valuable revision and reference tool when preparing to take a patient's history. Key features of this title are as mentioned below. Symptoms-based approach - this text adopts a unique symptoms-based approach, whereby each chapter starts with a presenting complaint from a patient and allows the reader to practise history taking in a real-life scenario. Case scenarios - a number of practice scenarios can be found at the end of the text, allowing the reader to practise history taking prior to examinations and seeing real patients on the wards and is also a valuable form of self-assessment. Asking difficult questions - a section on how to ask difficult questions and present cases succinctly, correctly and professionally is included for the benefit of the reader.

About this title

Review:

"As history taking is such a vital part of medicine, it is great to find a book that is dedicated entirely to it. This easy to read book provides good guidance on what can be a very challenging area for medical students and is a very useful resource for those revising for exams." Sarah Cassidy, Fourth Year student at Liverpool University

From the Publisher:

Each chapter describes the types of questions that the doctor or student should enquire about when taking the history from a patient for a particular presenting complaint. That is not to say that all histories should conform to a definite, consistent structure every time, but rather it highlights the sort of information that should be gathered from the patient, either through open-ended discussion, or through direct questioning, in order to reach a correct diagnosis. Indeed, history taking should still be seen as a fluid patient-led, doctor-steered exercise that cannot be learnt in a robotic fashion. However, this book would be particularly useful in examination preparation, in addition to being a useful adjunct on the wards, as in the former high-pressured scenario the student or doctor is usually expected to make a rapid diagnosis, based on the history alone, in just a few minutes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pastest
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 190462765X
• ISBN 13: 9781904627654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Grossman Ashley