cover image - Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, 9th Edition
ISBN: 9780443235061
Copyright: 2026
Page Count: 848
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $118.99

Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, 9th Edition

by Mark H. Swartz, MD, FACP

Hardcover

cover image - Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, 9th Edition
ISBN: 9780443235061
Copyright: 2026
Page Count: 848
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $118.99
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    • 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

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  • Section 1 Mastering the Art of Interviewing
    1. The Interviewer's Questions
    2. The Patient's Responses
    3. Understanding Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    4. Putting the History Together

    Section 2 Valuing Diversity: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
    5. Deconstructing Racism and Bias in Clinical Medicine

    Section 3 Understanding the Science of the Physical Examination
    6. The Physical Examination
    7. Assessment of Nutritional Status
    8. The Skin
    9. The Head and Neck
    10. The Eye
    11. The Ear and Nose
    12. The Oral Cavity and Pharynx
    13. The Chest
    14. The Heart
    15. The Peripheral Vascular System
    16. The Breast
    17. The Abdomen
    18. Male Genitalia and Hernias
    19. Female Genitalia
    20. The Musculoskeletal System
    21. The Nervous System
    22. Putting the Examination Together

    Section 4 Evaluating Specific Patients
    23. The Pregnant Patient
    24. The Pediatric Patient
    25. The Geriatric Patient
    26. The Acutely Ill or Injured Patient

    Section 5 Putting the Data to Work
    27. Precision, Accuracy, and Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment
    28. The Clinical Record
    29. The Focused History and Physical Examination

    Section 6 Analyzing Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine
    30. Clinical Ethics and Professionalism

    Appendices (Available online)
    A. Commonly Abused Drugs
    B. Signs and Symptoms of Deficiency States
    C. Conversion Tables
    D. English-to-Spanish Translations Useful in the Medical Setting
    E. The Rational Clinical Examination: Additional References
    F. CDC Recommended Immunization Schedule

  • Mark H. Swartz, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY), Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York; Professor of Medical Sciences, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, New York, New York; Director, C3NY--Clinical Competence Center of New York, New York, NY, USA
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