Writing A History And Physical

Central to providing excellent patient care is excellent communication, for which a well-written History and Physical is crucial. This book is a step-by-step guide to help medical students, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, etc. write a comprehensive, clear, and useful History and Physical. Writing an effective History and Physical is as much an art as science, and this handy guide provides a roadmap for organizing facts in a logical and well-constructed fashion. The text also presents an abridged version for quick reference and a valuable section on how to write daily progress notes. The author's tips pearls, and advice help the reader navigate the principles and goals of the History and Physical Contains more explanations, tips and advice than existing books for what to include and why Memorable good and bad examples reinforce themes in the text

An introduction to history taking and the examination of patients. Step-by-step instructions for the junior medical officer working on the ward for the first time. Aims to provide a solid foundation from which students can develop their own systematic approaches. Simon O'Connor from Australian National University.

"The Ophthalmic Exam: An Introduction to Techniques and Instrumentation for Evaluation" is an excellent reference for everyone new to the eye clinic. With a primary focus on developing history and exam skills, this handy reference delivers the fundamentals on a range of physical exam topics including refraction, retina exam, and alignment. Written in an easy and practical format, "The Ophthalmic Exam" presents the proper way to perform a history and physical examination on an eye patient. The opening chapter will educate the reader on how to perform an eye history on adults and children. Also included are chapters on the foundation of basic optics and how to perform a proper distance and near refraction exams. The book concludes by teaching the reader how to perform various examination techniques and how to record the findings. Dr Gary Schwartz includes only the essential information about ophthalmic examinations, so as to not bog down the reader with in-depth information about diseases. Important concepts are reinforced by including a helpful question and answer section at the end of most chapters. "The Ophthalmic Exam" is perfect for the eye clinic novice wanting to learn the basics and increase their familiarity with performing routine eye exams, as well as the experienced physician looking to fine tune their skills. Physical Exam topics include: Subjective and Objective Refraction, Near Refraction, Color vision, Pupil exam, Motilities, Alignment, Slit lamp examination, Intraocular pressure, determination, Gonioscopy and Retina examination.

PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING Series Editors, Susan H. McLeod and Rich Rice In PLACING THE HISTORY OF COLLEGE WRITING: STORIES FROM THE INCOMPLETE ARCHIVE, Nathan Shepley argues that pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing's physical, social, and discursive surroundings. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, Shepley shows, the writing does more complex rhetorical work. It gives students chances to uphold or adjust institutional codes for student behavior, allows students and their literacy sponsors to respond to sociopolitical issues in a city or state, enables faculty and administrators to create strategic representations of institutional or program identities, and connects people across disciplines, occupations, and geographic locations. Shepley argues that even if many of today's composition scholars and instructors work at institutions that lack extensive historical records of the kind usually preferred by composition historians, those scholars and teachers can mine their institutional collections for signs of the various contexts with which student writing dealt. NATHAN SHEPLEY is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition. In addition to composition history, his specialization areas include composition pedagogy and ecological and neosophistic theories of writing. His articles have appeared in Composition Studies, Enculturation, Composition Forum, and Open Words: Access and English Studies.

This handbook describes the diagnostic process clearly and logically, aiding medical students and others who wish to improve their diagnostic performance and to learn more about the diagnostic process.

The third edition of this bestselling introduction to medical history has been thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship and new events in major fields of medical endeavor.

A guide to the techniques and analysis of clinical data. Each of the seventeen sections begins with a drawing and biographical sketch of a seminal contributor to the discipline. After an introduction and historical survey of clinical methods, the next fifteen sections are organized by body system. Each contains clinical data items from the history, physical examination, and laboratory investigations that are generally included in a comprehensive patient evaluation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR