The best Clinician is also the best in physical diagnosis is an old well accepted clinical adage.

‘Listen to the patient, he/she is telling you the Diagnosis’ is a valuable advice, a statement that afirms the need for a good history and traces the path from symptoms to clinical signs as the medical student encounters the situation in examination of the patient’s ailments.

The book since its inceptron has been well illustrated with photographs contributing to the process of narrowing down a clinical diagnosis and enhancing its value.

The format of the book allows the head to foot sequence of physical examination when it seemed relevant, causes, differential diagnosis and mechanism of the particular sign.

With this pregmatic approach starting from the symptoms the students will usually succeed in substantiating the suspected diagnosis.

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