Publisher's Synopsis
This book introduces medical students to patients and procedures in hospital wards, and will prove invaluable to students beginning their training when they start to take case histories and examine patients. Clinical students are shown how to introduce themselves to patients, ho to gain their confidence, and how to take and record notes on their condition. There is also a section on taking a psychiatric history. The book is essentially a manual for use in hospital wards and is designed to fit conveniently into a coat pocket and to be suitably hard-wearing.
