John murtagh's general practice

Murtagh\'s General Practice 6th.pdf
	Front matter
		Title and copyright
		The authors
		Foreword
		Contents
		Acknowledgments
		Preface
		Making the most of your book
		Reviewers
		Laboratory reference values
		Normal values: worth knowing by heart
		Abbreviations
	Part 1 - The basis of general practice
		The nature, scope and content of general practice
		The family
		Consulting skills
		Communication skills
		Counselling skills
		Difficult, demanding and angry patients
		Health promotion and patient education
		The elderly patient
		Prevention in general practice
		Nutrition in health and illness
		Palliative care
		Pain and its management
		Research and evidence-based medicine
		Travel medicine
		Tropical medicine and the returned traveller
		Inspection as a clinical skill
		A safe diagnostic strategy
		Genetic conditions
	Part 2 - Diagnostic perspective in general practice
		Depression
		Diabetes mellitus
		Drug and alcohol problems
		Anaemia
		Thyroid and other endocrine disorders
		Spinal dysfunction
		Urinary tract infection
		Malignant disease
		HIV/AIDS—could it be HIV?
		Baffling viral and protozoal infections
		Baffling bacterial infections
		Infections of the central nervous system
		Chronic kidney failure
		Connective tissue disease and the vasculitides
		Neurological dilemmas
	Part 3 - Problem solving in general practice
		Abdominal pain
		Arthritis
		Anorectal disorders
		Thoracic back pain
		Low back pain
		Bruising and bleeding
		Chest pain
		Constipation
		Cough
		Deafness and hearing loss
		Diarrhoea
		The disturbed patient
		Dizziness/vertigo
		Dyspepsia (indigestion)
		Dysphagia
		Dyspnoea
		The painful ear
		The red and tender eye
		Pain in the face
		Fever and chills
		Faints, fits and funny turns
		Haematemesis and melaena
		Headache
		Hoarseness
		Jaundice
		Nasal disorders
		Nausea and vomiting
		Neck lumps
		Neck pain
		Shoulder pain
		Pain in the arm and hand
		Hip, buttock and groin pain
		Pain in the leg
		The painful knee
		Pain in the foot and ankle
		Walking difficulty and leg swelling
		Palpitations
		Sleep disorders
		Sore mouth and tongue
		Sore throat
		Tiredness/fatigue
		The unconscious patient
		Urinary disorders
		Visual failure
		Weight gain
		Weight loss
	Part 4 - Chronic disorders: continuing management
		Allergic disorders including hay fever
		Anxiety disorders
		Asthma
		Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
		Epilepsy
		Cardiovascular disease
		Hypertension
		Dyslipidaemia
		Chronic heart failure
		Osteoporosis
	Part 5 - Child and adolescent health
		An approach to the child
		Specific problems of children
		Surgical problems in children
		Common childhood infectious diseases (including skin eruptions)
		Behavioural and developmental issues and disorders in children
		Child abuse
		Emergencies in children
		Adolescent health
	Part 6 - Women\'s health
		Cervical cancer screening
		Family planning
		Breast pain (mastalgia)
		Lumps in the breast
		Abnormal uterine bleeding
		Lower abdominal and pelvic pain in women
		Premenstrual syndrome
		The menopause
		Vaginal discharge
		Vulvar disorders
		Basic antenatal care
		Infections in pregnancy
		High-risk pregnancy
		Postnatal care
	Part 7 - Male health
		Male health: an overview
		Scrotal pain
		Inguinoscrotal lumps
		Disorders of the penis
		Disorders of the prostate
	Part 8 - Sexual health
		The subfertile couple
		Sexual health
		Sexually transmitted infections
		Intimate partner violence and sexual assault
	Part 9 - Problems of the skin
		A diagnostic and management approach to skin problems
		Pruritus
		Common skin problems
		Acute skin eruptions
		Skin ulcers
		Common lumps and bumps
		Pigmented skin lesions
		Hair disorders
		Nail disorders
	Part 10 - Accident and emergency medicine
		Emergency care
		The doctor’s bag and other emergency equipment
		Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks
		Thrombosis and thromboembolism
		Common skin wounds and foreign bodies
		Common fractures and dislocations
		Common sporting injuries
	Part 11 - Health of specific groups
		The health of Indigenous peoples
		Refugee health
		Catchy metaphors, similes and colloquial expressions in medicine
	Back matter
		Appendix
		Index