Pediatric clinical skills.

There is a great British tradition in handbooks of clinical methods for adult medicine. Both Hutchison's Clinical Methods and Macleod's Clinical Examination now have a chapter on the special techniques for children. However, this pioneering Canadian work is written with the child in mind throughout. The impressive thoughts and feelings in the foreword could alleviate much of the current low morale of junior paediatricians in this country. Nuala Kenny powerfully portrays the challenges and rewards of children's medicine, and explains why clinical skills are paramount in this field. The book's weakness is that the 14 chapters describing examination of the systems are each written by a different subspecialist. While the student or junior doctor reader will gain many facts, he is left without