Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 2003-05-26
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0807827916
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780807827918
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description:
In this first book-length study of the history of diabetes in the 20th-century U.S., Feudtner draws on the medical archives and letters exchanged between patients or their family members and the staff of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to explore how medical intervention and cultural change have affected diabetics' lives.
| Tags: Endocrinology, Family Medicine |

Heal Your Aching Back (Harvard Medical School Guides)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2007-01-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071467653
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071467650
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Take back your health, your fitness, and your life
This authoritative and comprehensive guide, written by a Harvard doctor who has struggled with back pain himself, will help you find the real cause of your problem--and the smartest way to treat it. This simple step-by-step program will show you how to:
* Get the right diagnosis for your type of back pain
* Find the most effective treatment, including complementary therapies
* Control pain through specific exercises, massage, and yoga
| Tags: Family Medicine |

Heal Your Aching Back (Harvard Medical School Guides)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2007-01-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071467653
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071467650
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Take back your health, your fitness, and your life
This authoritative and comprehensive guide, written by a Harvard doctor who has struggled with back pain himself, will help you find the real cause of your problem--and the smartest way to treat it. This simple step-by-step program will show you how to:
* Get the right diagnosis for your type of back pain
* Find the most effective treatment, including complementary therapies
* Control pain through specific exercises, massage, and yoga
| Tags: Family Medicine |

First Exposure to Internal Medicine: Hospital Medicine

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2007-02-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071459014
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071459013
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Just what you need for your rotation in hospital medicine, this unique text puts mastery of the clerkship at your fingertips. Written by doctors who made hospital medicine their specialty, FIRST EXPOSURE TO HOSPITAL MEDICINE is the book they wish they had for their Internal Medicine clerkship.
The ideal databank and toolset for your rotation FIRST EXPOSURE TO HOSPITAL MEDICINE.
| Tags: Cardiology, Endocrinology, Family Medicine, Neurology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Pulmonology |

Family Violence in Primary Care

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2003-03-13
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0192628283
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780192628282
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Violence within the family, whether directed against children, partners or elders, profoundly disturbs our notions of what the relationship between the family and the discipline of general practice should be. GPs are doctors to whole families and yet their relationships with patients are individual ones, drawing their strength from the principles of confidentiality, mutual trust and positive regard. Violence and abuse within families necessarily challenges all of these, creating a profusion of ethical, interpersonal and practical difficulties and dilemmas.
| Tags: Family Medicine |

First Aid for the Family Medicine Boards

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: 2007-11-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071477713
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071477710
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO FAMILY MEDICINE BOARD SUCCESS
* The only resident-to-resident, step-by-step guide to help you pass the Family Medicine boards
* Current content based on the most recently administered in-service and board exams
* Designed for fast and fun learning
* Real answers to frequently tested questions o High-yield algorithms and images
* Insider tips from residents who've been there
* Great for recertification and in-service exams
| Tags: Family Medicine, USMLE |

Illustrated Manual of Pediatric Dermatology: Diagnosis and Management

Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Number Of Pages: 430
Publication Date: 2005-03-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1850707537
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781850707530
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description:
Written by two respected clinician-teachers in pediatric dermatology with a total of thirty-five years experience, Handbook of Pediatric Dermatology presents simple, basic approaches to problems that pediatricians and dermatologists see in their practice on a regular basis. With approximately 300 color photographs, it provides a diagnostic guide to a broad range of pediatric and adolescent skin diseases and disorders. The combination of photographs and practical, concise text gives pediatric and family doctors a visual reference and puts the information they need right at their fingertips.
| Tags: Pediatric, Dermatology |

Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual, 2007

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2007-01-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0763743089
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780763743086
Binding: Spiral-bound

Product Description:
Completely revised and updated for 2007, this practical handbook is an up-to-date guide to all aspects of cancer chemotherapy. The book provides a comprehensive, easy to use catalogue of over 100 drugs-both on- and off-label-commonly used in cancer treatment, including several new agents (recently or about to be FDA approved). A section on Common Chemotherapy Regimens provides a quick reference to management of specific cancers, arranged alphabetically. A comprehensively revised introductory chapter on Principles of Chemotherapy offers a concise, current overview of the field. Special features include: Special chapter profiling anti-emetic drugs Diagrams of drug structures and pathways Complete discussion of clinical pharmacology, indications, and dosages Coverage of toxicity and interactions Separate chapter on chemotherapy regimens for specific cancers Overview of basic principles of cancer drug therapy Easy to load and use CD-ROM version.
| Tags: Family Medicine, Oncology |

Treatment Guidelines for Medicine and Primary Care, 2008 Edition

Publisher: Current Clinical Strategies
Number Of Pages: 372
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934323128
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934323120
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
This pocket handbook is a compilation of current diagnostic and treatment guidelines for patient management in primary care. New NMS guidelines are included. It outlines the diagnosis and therapy for common problems encountered by family physicians, internists, and other primary care providers. This book is useful for physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants.
| Tags: Physical Therapy, Family Medicine |

Outpatient and Primary Care Medicine, 2008 Edition (Current Clinical Strategies)

Publisher: Current Clinical Strategies
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2007-09-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1934323063
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781934323069
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
This concise handbook outlines current management strategies for ambulatory patients with common disorders. It includes current guidelines for cardiology, gastroenterology, and gynecology.
| Tags: Family Medicine, Nursing |

Essential Infectious Disease Topics for Primary Care (Current Clinical Practice)

Publisher: Humana Press
Number Of Pages: 318
Publication Date: 2008-04-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1588295206
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781588295200
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description:
Although infectious disease mortality is decreasing, the disease burden remains substantial as many new infections have been identified and some well-established infectious diseases have reemerged. This book provides an easy-to-use, practical, yet comprehensive resource for family practitioners to use in the daily struggle against infectious diseases. It discusses vaccines and preventive measures as well as information on how to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms by judiciously prescribing antibiotics and informing patients about the appropriate use of these agents.
| Tags: Family Medicine, Infectious Disease |

Practical Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Facilities

WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia and Regional
Office for Western Pacific

Practical guidelines for infection control in health care facilities.
The guidelines jointly prepared by the WHO Regional Offices for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific have been prepared specifically to assist infection control practitioners in the integrated management of hospital-associated infections prevention and control (for both curative and preventive activities such as good environmental practices like proper administration of health care wastes, water quality control, etc.) and to ensure that health care administrators understand the significance of infection control programmes.
| Tags: Family Medicine, Infectious Disease |

Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1991-01-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0632065141
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780632065141
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Obesity is undoubtedly the major nutritional disorder of the western world. It has such a major impact on mortality, morbidity and the quality of life that it most certainly merits consideration as a disease in its own right and should be managed as such.
Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care covers all the evidence on the disease of obesity which impacts both quality of life and health. It reviews the links to long-term illness, especially diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and dedicates much to the current management strategies and treatment of obesity.
This book aims to make the task of tackling obesity less daunting for both patients and the health care professionals who treat them.
| Tags: Endocrinology, Family Medicine |

Hypertension Primer: The Essentials of High Blood Pressure: Basic Science, Population Science, and Clinical Management

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0781782058
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780781782050
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
Now in its thoroughly updated Fourth Edition, the Hypertension Primer is a comprehensive, readable source of state-of-the-art scientific and clinical information on hypertension. The book contains 171 short chapters by distinguished experts that cover every aspect of hypertension and its pathogenesis, epidemiology, impact, and management. Highlights of this edition include updated JNC 7 findings regarding special population therapy and clinical management. Chapters are grouped into three well-organized sections--basic science, population science, and clinical management--and each chapter is cross-referenced to other relevant chapters. Each chapter is easily digestible and begins with a bulleted list of key points.
| Tags: Cardiology, Family Medicine |

Conn's Current Therapy 2008: Text with Online Reference (Current Therapy)

Publisher: Saunders
Number Of Pages: 1328
Publication Date: 2007-12-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1416044353
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781416044352
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description:
Get multiple perspectives from more than 300 leading practitioners from over 15 countries on managing hundreds of common disorders affecting every organ system. The 2008 volume offers the latest thinking on everything from insomnia and hypertension...to smallpox and toxic chemical agents...as well as online access to the complete contents of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 volumes fully searchable, giving you multiple opinions on treatment. In print and online, Conns consistently offers you the fastest approach to the latest treatments for the most effective results!
* New Key Diagnostic Points and Key Treatment boxes throughout the text.
* Opinions informed not just by evidence, but by years of experience.
* Coverage of recently approved and soon-to-be-approved drugs, and current information on herbal products.
* Access to the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions complete contents online at fully searchable plus PocketConsult technology so you can download content to your PDA, and much more!
* Virtually all new content every year addressing the conditions you're seeing in your practice right now.
* Coverage of nearly 300 conditions and up to 6 treatments for each condition.
| Tags: Physical Therapy, Post Graduate, Dermatology, Emergency, ENT, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Toxicology |

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 892
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198568371
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780198568377
Binding: Turtleback

Book Description:
In the early 1980s, two junior doctors from Oxford noted down all the medical information they found valuable to keep. As medical students they learned most not from organised lecturers but from clinical sessions - on the ward and in clinic. Useful notes were written on scraps of paper, and it was from this that the original Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine was born. No other book has entered the hearts, minds and pockets of so many doctors and medical students the world over. Now in its 7th edition, the main features and essence of the original edition remain unchanged. Developed over 21 years, the Handbook encompasses the experience, knowledge and wisdom of more than 10 different authors. With its characteristic combination of incisive guidance, wit, a lucid style, and memorable epigrams, it continues to be the leading pocket reference of clinical medicine. The 7th edition is fully equipped for the modern doctor with a brand new design with integrated full-colour pictures on common problems such as rashes, scars and jaundice. There is a new chapter on radiology, new information on consent and how to handle common calls, and greater coverage of medications and doses, clinical skills and surgery. There are also numerous other updates and improvements throughout, many suggested by extensive market research and reader's feedback. Three new junior co-authors have been brought on board to ensure that the content reflects what readers really need. All in all, the latest Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine is just what the doctor ordered.
| Tags: Cardiology, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Haematology, Nephrology, Neurology, Pulmonology
|

Endovascular Therapy: Principles of Peripheral Interventions

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 2006-02-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405124237
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405124232
Binding: Hardcover

Book Description:
If you are one of the many physicians from different specialty disciplines who perform endovascular interventions then this practical reference will help you to develop your endovascular skills and encompass them into daily practice.
Endovascular Therapy covers everything you need to know about creating an endovascular program, such as imaging, catheter and device inventory, nursing support, and technician support.
In addition, this book provides a basic knowledge of the pathophysiology of vascular disease, interventional techniques, and endovascular modalities of various disease categories. Each individual disease and endovascular therapy is discussed and emphasis is placed on the relevant complications associated with the wide spectrum of endovascular interventions.
Also included are step-by-step guides to procedure conduct, tips and tricks, procedure specific equipment lists, and recommended post procedure orders and follow up.
| Tags: Family Medicine, Nursing |

Primer of Diagnostic Imaging

Publisher: Mosby
Number Of Pages: 1065
Publication Date: 2002-11-27
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0323023282
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780323023283
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
This resource provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at diagnostic imaging, presenting essential facts in an easy-to-read, bulleted format. Over 1,815 images highlight key diagnostic details and encompass the full range of modalities and specialties. A differential diagnosis section is found at the end of each chapter. The 3rd Edition features increased coverage of MRI throughout.
Makes a perfect clinical companion or review tool.
Presents essential facts in an easy-to-read, bulleted format.
Highlights key diagnostic details and encompasses the full range of modalities and specialties with over 1815 images.
Includes a differential diagnosis section at the end of each chapter.
Provides extra space for users to take notes.
| Tags: Radiology, Family Medicine |

Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2004-05-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071411828
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071411820
Binding: Paperback

Product Description:
A quick reference to the management of pain for specialists as well as general medical practitioners and residents. Written in a concise bulleted format, the content is limited to only the essential facts necessary for assessment and treatment of common pain conditions and presentations. A perfect review tool for both the anesthesia and pain medicine board exams.
| Tags: Anaesthesia, Neurology, Family Medicine |

Men's Sexual Health: Fitness for Satisfying Sex

Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-09-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415956382
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415956383
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:
This book explains healthy male sexuality, written by, for and about men. It is for men and their partners as they negotiate their sexuality around healthy practices. The work is organized around three main topics - awareness and enhancement of sexuality, dealing with sexual problems, and lifelong healthy sexuality. A multidimensional model for a comprehensive understanding of sexual health and sexual problems founded on current biological, psychological, and medical research is discussed in terms appropriate for the general reader. The authors explore the barriers and problems that limit sexual practice, discuss how to pursue sexual and relationship health, enhance sexual satisfaction. Problems such as premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, inhibited sexual desire, ejaculatory inhibition and compulsive sexual behavior are examined in terms of their causes and prescriptions for treatment are offered. Exercises and activities engage the reader to highlight important points, provide skills training, and stimulate healthy sexual practice.
| Tags: Urology, Family Medicine, Public Health |