Physical Signs in Medicine and Surgery

About the Book

Physical Signs in Medicine and Surgery - An Atlas of Rare, Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs: The work for this text began over two decades ago as Dr. Ashley White was researching ancient diseases and their initial presentations for prevention of future pandemic plagues. This evidence based paleopathology research has granted Dr. White access to some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites. These locations have been in England, Scotland, North and Central America, Nine additional countries in Europe, Asia - including Russia and China, the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, and South America including the Amazon Basin. This comprehensive Atlas was originally conceived for doctors providing needed care in dangerous, rugged and remote situations often created by catastrophe, disasters, epidemics, and military conflicts. It is within these serious environments that this Atlas can assist practitioners find the most obscure and difficult diagnosis where access to x-rays and modern laboratory equipment are often impossible. Designed with a unique reference style of key words tagged to known medical systems the Atlas functions as an easy to use clinical field manual whether in use in an advanced medical care unit or in the harsh realm of the jungle. This extensive compendium of rare medical findings, together with an incredible group of landmark essays make this the most complete Atlas of physical signs ever published.

About the Author

Dr. Michele C. White is a double graduate and completed her surgical training at the prestigious University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Founded in the 1700s the University of North Carolina is the oldest state university in the United States and is one of the original eight flagship public colleges known as Ivy. She studied doctorate level forensic anthropology and has held membership in a top national pathology academy as well as Fellowship status in a maxillofacial surgery association. Dr. White has been on the medical staff with surgical privileges at three regional medical centers. She is currently conducting research in medical anthropology. Dr. White lives with her husband and son on their ranch located in rural North Central Florida and their home in the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains.