Swartz Textbook of Physical Diagnosis, 9th Edition

• 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. Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Clinical Skills
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 Transgender Patient
27. The Acutely Ill or Injured Patient
Section 5 Putting the Data to Work
28. Precision, Accuracy, and Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment
29. The Clinical Record
30. The Focused History and Physical Examination
31. Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Encounters: Opportunities and Challenges
32. Telehealth: Adapting Clinical Assessment
Section 6 Analyzing Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine
33. Clinical Ethics and Professionalism

Epilogue: A Journey Through Physical Diagnosis
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions
e-Appendices (Available Online)
E-Appendix B Commonly Misused Substances
E-Appendix C Signs and Symptoms of Deficiency States
E-Appendix D Conversion Tables
E-Appendix E English-to-Spanish Translations Useful in the Medical Setting
E-Appendix F The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis

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