Richard LeBlond - DeGowins Diagnostic Examination, Ninth Edition

DeGowin's DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATION

Ninth Edition

Richard F. LeBlond, MD, MACP

Professor of Internal Medicine (Clinical)
The University of Iowa College of
Medicine Iowa City, Iowa

Richard L. DeGowin, MD, FACP

Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine
The University of Iowa College of
Medicine Iowa City, Iowa

Donald D. Brown, MD, FACP

Professor of Internal Medicine
The University of Iowa College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa

Illustrated by

Elmer DeGowin, MD,
Jim Abel,
and Shawn Roach

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To our patients,
who allow us to practice our art,
encourage us with their confidence,
and humble us with their courage.
Richard F. LeBlond

It is not easy to give exact and complete details of an operation in writing; but the reader should form an outline of it from the description.

Hippocrates
"On Joints"

[Studies] perfect Nature, and are perfected by Experience: For Natural Abilities, are like Natural Plants, that need proyning by study: And Studies themselves, due give forth Directions too much at Large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty Men Contemne Studies; Simple Men Admire them; And Wise Men Use them; For they teach not their owne Use; But that is a Wisdome without them, and above them, won by Observation. Reade not to Contradict, and Confute; Nor to Beleeve and Take for granted; Nor to Finde Talke and Disourse; But to weigh and Consider.

Francis Bacon
"Of Studies"

It is only by persistent intelligent study of disease upon a methodical plan of examination that a man gradually learns to correlate his daily lessons with the facts of his previous experience and that of his fellows, and so acquires clinical wisdom.

Sir William Osler

Sources for Quotations:

Brecht quotation from: Bertolt Brecht. Poems 19131956. London, Methuen London Ltd., 1979.

Eliot quotation from: T.S. Eliot. The Complete Poems and Plays, 19091950. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1971.

Frazer quotation from: Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough, A Study in Magic and Religion, abridged edition. New York, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1922.

Hippocrates quotation from: Jacques Jouanna (M.B. DeBevoise translator). Hippocrates. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Osler quotation from: Sir William Osler. Aequanimitas, with other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practictioners of Medicine. Philadelphia, P. Blakistons Son and Co., 1928.

Roethke quotations from: Theodore Roethke. On Poetry and Craft. Port Townsend, Washington Copper Canyon Press, 2001.