Family General Practice category: 781 books
Cicatricial Alopecia
An Approach to Diagnosis and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This is the first and only book on the diagnosis and treatment of cicatricial alopecia, written by leading experts in the field. This highly illustrated and practical text helps residents and practicing dermatologists to accurately diagnose and treat the scarring alopecias.
Thinking in Circles About Obesity
Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Today’s children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its associated health problems. Heretofore, the strategy to slow obesity’s galloping pace has been driven...
by Angele McGrady, Donald Moss
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book, designed for professionals, introduces a psychobiological model for understanding the paths that lead people to illness and provides recommendations for alterations of maladaptive pathways so that health is regained. Research findings are incorporated to identify causal variables for illness...
Psychiatric Care in Severe Obesity
An Interdisciplinary Guide to Integrated Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book is designed to present a comprehensive, state-of the-art approach to assessing and managing bariatric surgery and psychosocial care. Unlike any other text, this book focuses on developing a biopsychosocial understanding of patients’ obesity journey and psychosocial factors contributing...
Improving Patient Treatment Adherence
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
Despite its direct effect on a patient’s health, the literature on treatment adherence does not yet include a summary of proven methods for identifying and addressing patient non-adherence. Improving Patient Treatment Adherence Across Multiple Behaviors: A Clinician's Guide differs significantly...
Advice to the Healer
On the Art of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine and related healing professions. Reinforcing the humanistic side of patient care, this book replicates the tips, anecdotes and aphorisms often related by mentors and educators to medical students, residents, and...
The Primary Care Toolkit
Practical Resources for the Integrated Behavioral Care Provider
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Integrated care is receiving a lot of attention from clinicians, administrators, policy makers, and researchers. Given the current healthcare crises in the United States, where costs, quality, and access to care are of particular concern, many are looking for new and better ways of delivering behavioral...
Pediatric Obesity
Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Childhood obesity and its co-morbidities -- including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, sleep apnea, and fatty liver disease -- have seen striking increases in recent years. Despite a wealth of investigation, there is considerable controversy regarding the etiology of childhood obesity...
The Handbook of Contraception
A Guide for Practical Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book presents an up-to-date and comprehensive review of female contraception. It offers an extensive overview of contraception types, including oral, injectable, emergency, and various cervical barrier contraceptives, as well as behavioral and sterilization methods, and discusses the clinical...
Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
The second edition of the Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach expands on the first edition by providing a number of timely new features. Most important of these are the revised recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society on prescribing that reflect the many...
Male Alopecia
Guide to Successful Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
This monograph provides specialists and primary care physicians who are interested in hair with the practical know-how needed to achieve successful management of male alopecia. Guidance is first provided on the examination of hair loss in men, covering such aspects as clinical examination, the role...
Pediatric Board Study Guide
A Last Minute Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Covers the most frequently asked and tested points on the pediatric board exam. Each chapter offers a quick review of specific diseases and conditions clinicians need to know during the patient encounter. Easy-to-use and comprehensive, clinicians will find this guide to be the ideal final resource needed before taking the pediatric board exam.
by Gabriel Stux, Bruce Pomeranz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
We are very pleased that it has become necessary after such a short time to publish a new edition of this handy guide to acupuncture, which is intended to combine practicality with an affordable price. It, just like the first edition, is based on our larger Acupunclure Textbook and Atlas, but we...
Managing Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drug Problems
A Pocket Guide for Physicians and Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Advice and treatment by physicians and nurses can substantially reduce substance use and its associated disease and health care costs, yet physicians are often hampered by lack of training and knowledge in this area.
Managing Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Problems: A Pocket Guide for Physicians...