General practice / Family medicine

Accurate diagnosis is the foundation of medical practice, but at the start of the diagnostic process, uncertainty is inevitable.

Accurate diagnosis is the foundation of medical practice, but at the start of the diagnostic process, uncertainty is inevitable.

The potentially devastating impact of substance use disorders (SUDs) on family and concerned significant others has been well-documented, but there is hope.

The potentially devastating impact of substance use disorders (SUDs) on family and concerned significant others has been well-documented, but there is hope.

The most common medical problem in America today, chronic pain is more prevalent than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined.

The most common medical problem in America today, chronic pain is more prevalent than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined.

The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors.

Mood disorders are a global health issue.

Headache pain is widespread: 70% of Americans report suffering from headaches; 12% of those experience migraine pain.

Highly acclaimed in its first two editions, Ian R.

Based on his successful treatment of thousands of diabetic patients for over 30 years, Dr.

Antibiotics will soon no longer be able to cure common illnesses such as strep throat, sinusitis and middle ear infections as they have done for the last 60 years.

American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides.

Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals working in today's health care settings must be prepared to offer support in dangerous times despite staffing shortages, financial pressures, and complex legal requirements.

What is it like to be sued for medical malpractice?

Mild depressions are so insidious that sufferers often don't seek help.

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.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

This book is the product of a multi-year initiative, sponsored by the Division of Family Psychology (43) of the American Psychological Association, the Family Institute at Northwestern University, Oxford University Press, and Northwestern University, to bring together the leading researchers in family psychology in five major areas of great social and health relevance -- good marriage, depression, divorce and remarriage, partner violence, and families and physical health.

Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make up 10% of all cases).

This new account of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension (EH) represents a detailed analysis of the main components of the circulatory control system.

Integrated care incorporates behavioral and physical health services into primary care and specialty medical environments.

Integrated care incorporates behavioral and physical health services into primary care and specialty medical environments.

Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine evaluating current empirical research and academic scholarship.

Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine evaluating current empirical research and academic scholarship.

The entrenched separation of primary care and public health in the United States has been damaging and self-perpetuating.

The entrenched separation of primary care and public health in the United States has been damaging and self-perpetuating.

Do you have rushes of fear accompanied by a pounding heart, trembling, dizziness, and feelings of unreality that make you think you're sick, dying, or losing your mind?

The extended role physiotherapy has been given increased attention over the past decade in North America and Europe.

Community-based integrated care (CBIC) is designed to keep older adults where they want to be - at home and out of hospitals and nursing homes.

Psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy are of increasing importance in the acute treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases.

This book provides an overview of sleep and sleep disorders for practicing clinicians.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the complex, growing mental health challenges faced by culturally diverse populations of children and adolescents.

This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes.

In dit boek voor huisartsen staat informatie over uiteenlopende zaken van de bedrijfsvoering, zoals personeelsbeleid, samenwerking, kwaliteitsbeleid, het lezen van de jaarcijfers en inrichting van de praktijk.

This first-of-its-kind title addresses the failures of an often fragmented healthcare system in managing vulnerable patients with multiple, chronic, co-morbid conditions -- patients who are frequently unresponsive to the methods and approaches used to treat other patients with conditions that are less complicated.

This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-read guide to obstetrics and gynecology in developing countries.

This book provides an evidence-based guide for primary care physicians seeking to integrate behavioral health into their practice.

This book connects experts in the field of child assessment to provide child psychiatrists with knowledge in evaluation and educational programming.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, with a lifetime prevalence rate of roughly 20%.

This ambitious book provides the latest research in leading topics of behavioral medicine and evidence-based strategies for its application in solving clinical problems.

This comprehensive book thoroughly covers bone health in the adolescent, offering evidence-based guidance for clinical care in the primary care setting, and includes aspects of endocrinology, nutrition, radiology, sports medicine, and rehabilitation.

This comprehensive book thoroughly addresses all aspects of health care transition of adolescents and young adults with chronic illness or disability; and includes the framework, tools and case-based examples needed to develop and evaluate a Health Care Transition (HCT) planning program that can be implemented regardless of a patient's disease or disability.

This comprehensive, first-of-its kind title is an indispensable resource for pharmacists looking to learn or improve crucial patient assessment skills relevant to all pharmacy practice settings.

This unique resource is a practical, easy-to-use guide for the non-ophthalmologist healthcare provider as they encounter patients with eye complaints and other concerning ophthalmic conditions.

This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the "e;structural competency"e; framework to reduce inequalities in health.

Steeds meer huisartsen ervaren dat werken met Positieve Gezondheid veel oplevert.

This book establishes and specifies a rigorously scientific and clinically valid basis for nonpharmaceutical approaches to many common diseases and disorders found in clinical settings.

This book offers a comprehensive overview to chronic illness care, which is the coordinated, comprehensive, and sustained response to chronic diseases and conditions by a range of health care providers, formal and informal caregivers, healthcare systems, and community-based resources.

This case-based guide is written from the clinician's perspective, dealing with a defined male infertility problem, tracing the actual clinical pathway arriving at the diagnosis, and discussing the treatment options and the likely outcome.