Richard F. LeBlond's name appears first on previous edition

Includes bibliographical references and index

Diagnosis -- History taking and the medical record -- Physical examination -- Vital signs, anthropometric data, and pain -- Nonregional systems and diseases -- The skin and nails -- The head and neck -- The chest : chest wall, pulmonary, and cardiovascular systems; the breasts -- Abdomen, perineum, anus, and rectosigmoid -- The urinary system -- The female genitalia and reproductive system -- The male genitalia and reproductive system -- The spine, pelvis and extremities -- The nervous system -- The mental status, psychiatric, and social evaluations -- The preoperative evaluation -- Principles of diagnostic testing -- Common laboratory tests

"DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination describes the techniques for obtaining a complete history and performing a thorough physical exam, links symptoms and signs with the pathophysiology of disease, presents an approach to differential diagnosis, based upon the pathophysiology of disease, which can be efficiently tested in the laboratory, and does all of this in a format that can be used as a quick point-of-care reference and as a text to study the principles and practice of history taking and physical examination"--