W. M. Drake

Hutchison's Clinical Methods is a book for students of all ages and all degrees of experience. Although the scope, complexity and technology of clinical medicine continues to evolve with great speed, the aim of this text is exactly as it was when Robert Hutchison published the very first edition 125 years ago in 1897: to provide a detailed guide to the acquisition of the traditional clinical skills of history taking and physical examination leading...

Providing a source of learning and reference for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors, this book teaches an integrated approach to clinical practice, so that new methods and investigations are grafted onto established patterns of clinical practice, rather than added on as something extra.