Taylor’s Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges A Handbook /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Taylor, Robert B. (Editor), David, Alan K. (Editor), Fields, Scott A. (Editor), Phillips, D. Melessa (Editor), Scherger, Joseph E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.

With a clinician’s experienced eye, Robert B. Taylor, MD, has carefully chosen chapters from his widely trusted reference, Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, Sixth Edition, that focus on selected problems that clinicians often find a challenge to diagnose or treat. Respected contributors shar...

Table of Contents:

• Cultural, Race, and Ethnicity Issues in Health Care
• Family Issues in Health Care
• Genetic Disorders
• Care of the Obese Patient
• Care of the Patient with Fatigue
• Care of the Patient with a Sleep Disorder
• Care of the Alcoholic Patient
• Care of the Patient Who Misuses Drugs
• Care of the Patient with Chronic Pain
• Care of the Dying Patient
• Diseases of the Rectum and Anus
• Common Dermatoses
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Thyroid Disease
• Anemia.