Diagnostics (6th Edition) (15th Plan Textbook)

Author: Chen Wenbin
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Publish Date: 2004-11-21
Features: Diagnostics is a discipline that applies fundamental medical theories, knowledge, and skills to diagnose diseases. It serves as a required course for medical students to transition from studying basic medical sciences, including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, histology and embryology, pathophysiology, and pathology, to learning clinical medical sciences. Its main content includes collecting medical history through patient interviews to systematically and comprehensively grasp the patient's symptoms. By means of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, it carefully investigates the signs present in the patient and conducts necessary laboratory tests, such as hematological tests, biochemical tests, and etiological tests, as well as instrumental examinations like electrocardiography, X-rays, and ultrasound, to reveal or discover the patient's overall clinical manifestations. Learning to acquire these clinical signs and mastering the basic skills of collecting this clinical data is essential. Applying the learned fundamental medical theories, it elucidates the pathophysiological basis of the patient's clinical manifestations and proposes possible diagnoses, laying a foundation for studying clinical medical sciences, clinical observation, and clinical practice.