Family General Practice category: 781 books
Griffith's Instructions for Patients E-Book
Expert Consult
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
With over 430 patient instruction fact sheets and an additional 123 patient instruction sheets online, the new edition of Griffith's Instructions for Patients by Stephen W. Moore, MD, helps patients understand what their illness is, how it will affect their regular routine, what self care is required,...
The New Kinship
Constructing Donor-Conceived Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
No federal law in the United States requires that egg or sperm donors or recipients exchange any information with the offspring that result from the donation. Donors typically enter into contracts with fertility clinics or sperm banks which promise them anonymity. The parents may know the
donor’s...
by R. Douglas Collins
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Neck and back pain is one of the most common presenting complaints in primary care practice, but can be very challenging to diagnose and manage. Diagnosis and Management of Neck and Back Pain inPrimary Care helps you systematically approach this problem and give your patients the relief they so desperately...
Reinventing Depression
A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
To inform future research, treatment, and policy decisions, this book traces the scientific and social developments that shaped the current treatment model for depression in primary care over the past half century. While new strategies for diagnosing and treating depression have improved millions...
No One Left Behind
How Nurse Practitioners Are Changing The Canadian Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
No One Left Behind: How Nurse Practitioners Are Changing The Canadian Health Care System, is a collection of stories from NPs across Canada, sharing their most memorable experiences with patients, which clearly illustrate the critical role they play throughout the health care system. Each story is compelling...
Healing the Schism
Epidemiology, Medicine, and the Public’s Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My conviction is that the matters addressed in this volume are of transcendental importance if we are to face up to the challenges of the 1990s and beyond. How, for instance, are we to cope with a truly ecological approach to public health and all its concomitant changes of risk groups worldwide unless...
What Every Medical Writer Needs to Know
Questions and Answers for the Serious Medical Author
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
This book presents must-know facts generally not covered in “How To” books about medical writing. Every medical writer, whether a beginner or veteran, needs answers to questions many might not even know to ask. How does your personality type influence your writing behavior, and what can you do...
Exercise for Aging Adults
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This book translates the new findings in exercise research for the elderly for busy practitioners, trainees, students and administrators. This book provides practical strategies that can be implemented immediately in the common settings in which practitioners care for adults. The format includes key...
Dementia Care
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This book provides an overview of the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial context of dementia care. With its focus on patient and family perspectives, this book describes evidence-based approaches towards prevention, detection, and treatment of dementia that is like any other book. The text presents...
by Michael J. Blaha, Rajesh Tota-Maharaj
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Increased caloric intake, increased refined carbohydrate consumption, and physical inactivity have led to an explosion in the worldwide incidence of abdominal obesity and the emerging epidemic of insulin resistance, resulting in an increase of metabolic syndrome. Physicians can use the metabolic syndrome...
by Elaine Holt MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
**Dr. Elaine Holt is not your average doctor. **Her medical practice is small, while her heart for her patients is huge. The Doctor Next Door is a collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people. The stories spotlight the physician as a down-to-earth person, sometimes flawed and unnervingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like “RSI” and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links...
Musculoskeletal Physical Examination E-Book
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
From an interdisciplinary author team now including orthopedic surgeons, PM&R specialists, and primary care and sports medicine experts, the second edition of Musculoskeletal Physical Examination: An Evidence-Based Approach educates physicians on how to give the most thorough physical examinations...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Atlas of Dermatology in Internal Medicine is the only concise text-atlas to cover the most common and most important cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease in children and adults. It features more than 150 clinical photographs that are accompanied by format-driven, clinically focused text...