Handbook of Clinical Medicine

Clinical medicine is a medical field that involves the study of technical medical subjects and a practical experience of medicine. It covers a comprehensive understanding of a patient's medical status through observations, diagnosis, as well as treatment and management of real-life patients. In the field of clinical medicine, a patient's clinical history is documented through a series of different examinations and investigations. It also involves gaining knowledge from different sources such as a theoretical study of books and taught-courses. This knowledge is then applied to gain a comprehensive understanding of the medical condition of a patient. The physical diagnosis of a patient makes use of diagnostic devices such as tongue depressor, thermometer and stethoscope. This book contains some path-breaking studies in the field of clinical medicine. It provides significant information of this discipline to help develop a good understanding of clinical medicine and related fields. With state-of-the-art inputs by acclaimed experts of this field, this book targets medical science students and professionals.