A book you were reading

[RickBarker]

I apologize that this isn't the best place to ask this question. A while back, you mentioned you were reading some physicians' book about what any and every physical sign or symptom a patient has could mean. I have searched thoroughly for the post but can't find it. Do you know the book I am talking about?

Thanks,

Rick

[Jordan Feigenbaum]

Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis.

[RickBarker]

Thanks a bunch. Thought it sounded like a good book for quick differential diagnosis as a physical therapist. Especially with more direct access patients coming in. Appreciate it.

[Bestafter60]

Very cool book, looks to me, non-physician, more like a book on how to think. Here's a funny passage:
"As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomized controlled trials. Advocates of evidence-based medicine have criticized the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence-based medicine organized and participated in a double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of the parachute."

[Jordan Feigenbaum]

That's one of my favorite studies: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials | The BMJ (the footnotes are the best)

Contributors GCSS had the original idea. JPP tried to talk him out of it. JPP did the first literature search but GCSS lost it. GCSS drafted the manuscript but JPP deleted all the best jokes. GCSS is the guarantor, and JPP says it serves him right.