[.ca] Paediatric Clinical Examination Made Easy (ISBN 044310395X)

Paediatric clinical examination:
The "Paediatric Clinical Examination" is now in its fourth edition, and rightly so, because it is helpful to all working in pediatrics. Professor Denis Gill and consultant paediatrician Niall O'Brian from Children's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, have done a wonderful job with this small and handy pocketsize book for students, residents and others working with children. The book has 11 chapters with introduction to pediatrics, a "form of veterinary medicine", history taking, approaching children, examination at different ages, systems examination, pediatrics as the "measuring doctor", hydration and nutrition, developmental assessment at different ages, the art of examining excreta, using your senses and finally pediatric tips and topics with sound advice. The book is full of wonderful illustrations, funny and profound advice with quotations, like the words of Sir Dominic Corrigan (1853)" "The trouble with many doctors is not that they do not know enough but that they do not see enough" or the advice to teach thy tongue to say" "I do not know" (Rabbi Moses Maimonides or Rambam, 1135-1204). All in all a very handy book for the student, the resident or other professional working with children. I had a lot of fun reading it. Professor Joav Merrick, MD Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel, email: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net