Student guide to primary care : making the most of your early clinical experience /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Hanley & Belfus,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Survival skills for your first day in the office
- Who pays the bills? An introduction to health care financing
- Uncertainty in clinical medicine
- Blood-borne pathogens, standard precautions, and isolation practices
- Conducting the patient interview
- Telephone triage
- Health care maintenance for adults
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Abdominal pain in children
- Allergic diseases
- Ankle injuries
- Anxiety and depression
- Asthma in childhood
- Back pain
- The birth control visit
- Breast masses
- Chest pain
- Child abuse and neglect
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Congestive heart failure
- Constipation
- Coronary artery disease
- Cough in adults
- Cough in infants and children
- Diabetes
- Difficulty breathing and shortness of breath
- Dizziness
- Ear pain and ear infections
- Elder abuse
- Failure to thrive
- Falls in the elderly
- Fatigue
- Fever in adults
- Fever in infants and children
- Fractures
- Genitourinary and vaginal complaints in children
- Headache
- HIV
- Hypertension
- Memory problems
- Menopause
- Nutrition problems
- Occupational and environmental medicine, worker's compensation, and disability evaluation
- Partner abuse
- Painful joints and arthritis
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Physical and mental disabilities
- The prenatal visit
- Preoperative evaluation
- Pressure ulcers
- Rashes and common skin problems
- The red eye
- School problems
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Sleep disorders
- Sore throat
- Substance abuse
- Thermal injuries
- Trauma
- Urinary and vaginal symptoms in adults
- Urinary incontinence
- Vomiting and diarrhea in children
- Casting, Splinting, and taping
- Injections
- Joint aspiration and injection
- Minor surgery
- Office laboratory procedures
- Spirometry
- Tympanometry