A patient with Munchausen’s syndrome is said to have remarked that 'any fool can feel a tummy' but he had come across some remarkable doctors with innate gentleness and acquired polish to do the job.
This tutorial cannot transmit any magic (which you can however acquire by dedicated practice) but it presents a comprehensive list of various short cases likely to be encountered in the MRCP membership examination, the pictures of the principal clinical signs together with a commentary on their chief features, and the essential details and steps of the examination of the abdomen.
Dr M Afzal Mir, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician, UHW, Cardiff.
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