Fundamentals of Family Medicine: The Family Medicine Clerkship Textbook - Softcover

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Like the highly successful first edition, the second edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE will present the medical student and practioner with common clinical problems of family practice, placing special emphasis on those problems most common in the office setting. Topics such as pregnancy, labor and delivery, common problems of the elderly, headache, hypertension, urinary tract infections, osteoarthritis, HIV, anxiety disorders and athletic injuries covered in the first edition will be thoroughly reviewed and updated and include new information on drugs as well as new case studies. The second edition will also include new discussion questions, new information on problems of the infant and child and tables describing the Folstein Minimental Status Exam and assessment of the elderly. An unique, continuing feature of FUNDAMENTALS... will be The Index Family paradigm -- a three generation extended family with selected illnesses. A genogram will introduce this family model and specific family memebers will form the basis of case presentations for discussions that follow each chapter. Useful material on clinical prevention, consultations and referrals will also be updated and featured. This book -- clinical, portable and easy-to-use -- is a "must have" for all medical students in Family Medicine.

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