Hurst's The Heart [antikvár]

PrefaceFor three decades, Dr. J. Willis Hurst, then Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Emory University, emphasized the importance of learning and teaching medicine. He has also emphasized that the more physicians teach, the more they leam. We as physicians learn from the literature, we leam from each other, and we especially leam from our patients. The end product of the learning process is the delivery of quality care to the patient.In recognition of the emphasis on self-directed learning in continuing medical education, this review book presents a total of 655 multiple-choice questions. Each answer is discussed and referenced to the appropriate page or pages in Hurst's The Heart. The editors carefully reviewed and edited questions, some of which went through many drafts until they were right.One of the dangers of a self-assessment exercise is the idea that a good score implies expertise. The editors of this book believe that good doctoring consists not only of basic knowledge but of the ability to gather the appropriate medical data from the patient, to create a list of health problems, to act with the best possible clinical judgment, and to be properly involved in the humane effort of caring for the patient. This book will assist the reader in the first step of this sequenceassessing one's basic medical knowledge.We wish to thank Myma Esbrandt and Kelly Pinkston for their help in preparing the manuscripta task that is more difficult than one might thinkand Gail Gavert, Bruce MacGregor, and Gyl A. Favours at McGraw-Hill for their expertise in shepherding the manuscript through to completion.Jerre F Lutz, M.D.John W. Hurst, Jr., M.D.J. Willis Hurst, M.D.