From the Bookshelf

It is an uncommon textbook that can span the distance between neophyte and maestro. Nonetheless, this latest edition of Sapira’s Bedside Diagnosis easily manages that stretch.

In not quite 700 text pages this volume covers the interview, detailed examination of each body part and system, and the clinical reasoning that makes sense of these data.

Orient is the editorial philosopher’s stone, changing into gold what in some other texts is leaden prose.

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