Despite the growing reliance on sophisticated high technology, important information about the cardiovascular system can often be obtained from a careful cardiac physical examination. Indeed, even in this age of advanced technology, the cardiac physical exam remains a simple and reliable clinical approach to a rapid, accurate, and cost-effective cardiac diagnosis. Cardiac Physical Exam Made Ridiculously Simple, which includes a downloadable interactive program on cardiac ausculation, provides an in-depth, but clear, brief, and clinically relevant presentation of all aspects of the cardiac physical exam, by one of the world's leading experts in cardiac diagnosis.