Student guide to primary care : making the most of your early clinical experience /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steele, David J. (David Jay), 1948-, Susman, Jeffrey, McCurdy, Fredrick A., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Hanley & Belfus, [2003]
Subjects:
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