The reference GPs rely on when practical experience counts.
John Murtaghs General Practice is widely recognized as the most influential publication for general practice and primary health care. Now in its fifth edition, this gold standard reference comprehensively covers the entire spectrum of general practice.
Key Features
•three new chapters covering infections of the central nervous system, refugee health and colloquial expressions in medicine
•expanded coverage with two chapters on travel medicine and tropical medicine and the returned traveler
•expanded coverage with two chapters on menopause and osteoporosis
•an increased focus on evidenced-based medicine
•updated and peer reviewed to reflect the latest medical developments
•insightful coverage of conditions that clinicians see, and often struggle with, in daily practice
•with over 80 new photographs and illustrations, there are now more than 800 full-colour visual references
Praise for John Murtagh
You only need to look at how he writes his books to see that he is a great educator and a wonderful general practitioner who teaches in a very practical, intelligent and focused way, Michael Kidd, in Australian Doctor 2005 (as President of the RACGP)
Murtaghs textbooks and his teaching are equally legendary. General Practice, Patient Education and Practice Tips have sold more than 50,000 copies excluding nine language translations and several English reprints in India. John Murtagh was in the top 10 of Australian Doctors 50 most influential people in general practice 2005.
General Practice was described as the authoritative source for both established GPs and those starting out; the book has a place in just about every GP surgery in the country.
The renowned John Murtagh is Emeritus Professor in General Practice at Monash University; Professorial Fellow of General Practice at the University of Melbourne; Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Notre Dame and Guest Professor at Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing.
This new edition benefits from the contributions of Dr Jill Rosenblatt as a second medical author and editor. Dr Rosenblatt is a General Practitioner and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Primary Health Care at Monash University whose wealth of rural and urban experience adds a new level of authority to this respected work.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 The basis of general practice
1 The nature and content of general practice
2 The family
3 Consulting skills
4 Communication skills
5 Counselling skills
6 Difficult, demanding and angry patients
7 Health promotion and patient education
8 The elderly patient
9 Prevention in general practice
10 Nutrition in health and illness
11 Palliative care
12 Pain and its management
13 Research and evidence-based medicine
14 Travel medicine
15 Tropical medicine and the returned traveller
16 Laboratory investigations
17 Inspection as a clinical skill
18 A safe diagnostic strategy
19 Genetic conditions
Part 2 Diagnostic perspective in general practice
20 Depression
21 Diabetes mellitus: diagnosis
22 Drug problems
23 Anaemia
24 Thyroid and other endocrine disorders
25 Spinal dysfunction
26 Urinary tract infection
27 Malignant disease
28 HIV/AIDS—could it be HIV?
29 Baffling viral and protozoal infections
30 Baffling bacterial infections
31 Infections of the central nervous system
32 Chronic kidney failure
33 Connective tissue disease and the vasculitides
34 Neurological dilemmas
Part 3 Problem solving in general practice
35 Abdominal pain
36 Arthritis
37 Anorectal disorders
38 Thoracic back pain
39 Low back pain
40 Bruising and bleeding
41 Chest pain
42 Constipation
43 Cough
44 Deafness and hearing loss
45 Diarrhoea
46 The disturbed patient
47 Dizziness/vertigo
48 Dyspepsia (indigestion)
49 Dysphagia
50 Dyspnoea
51 The painful ear
52 The red and tender eye
53 Pain in the face
54 Fever and chills
55 Faints, fits and funny turns
56 Haematemesis and melaena
57 Headache
58 Hoarseness
59 Jaundice
60 Nasal disorders
61 Nausea and vomiting
62 Neck lumps
63 Neck pain
64 Shoulder pain
65 Pain in the arm and hand
66 Hip, buttock and groin pain
67 Pain in the leg
68 The painful knee
69 Pain in the foot and ankle
70 Walking difficulty and leg swelling
71 Palpitations
72 Sleep disorders
73 Sore mouth and tongue
74 Sore throat
75 Tiredness/fatigue
76 The unconscious patient
77 Urinary disorders
78 Visual failure
79 Weight gain
80 Weight loss
Part 4 Child and adolescent health
81 An approach to the child
82 Specific problems of children
83 Surgical problems in children
84 Common childhood infectious diseases (including skin eruptions)
85 Behaviour disorders in children
86 Child abuse
87 Emergencies in children
88 Adolescent health
Part 5 Womens health
89 Cervical cancer and Pap smears
90 Family planning
91 Breast pain (mastalgia)
92 Lumps in the breast
93 Abnormal uterine bleeding
94 Lower abdominal and pelvic pain in women
95 Premenstrual syndrome
96 The menopause
97 Osteoporosis
98 Vaginal discharge
99 Vulvar disorders
100 Domestic violence and sexual assault
101 Basic antenatal care
102 Infections in pregnancy
103 High-risk pregnancy
104 Postnatal care
Part 6 Men’s health
105 Mens health: an overview
106 Scrotal pain
107 Inguinoscrotal lumps
108 Disorders of the penis
109 Disorders of the prostate
Part 7 Sexually related problems
110 The subfertile couple
111 Sexual health
112 Sexually transmitted infections
Part 8 Problems of the skin
113 A diagnostic and management approach to skin problems
114 Pruritus
115 Common skin problems
116 Acute skin eruptions
117 Skin ulcers
118 Common lumps and bumps
119 Pigmented skin lesions
120 Hair disorders
121 Nail disorders
Part 9 Chronic disorders: continuing management
122 Alcohol problems
123 Allergic disorders including hay fever
124 Anxiety disorders
125 Asthma
126 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
127 Epilepsy
128 Hypertension
129 Dyslipidaemia
130 Diabetes mellitus: management
131 Chronic heart failure
Part 10 Accident and emergency medicine
132 Emergency care
133 The doctors bag and other emergency equipment
134 Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks
135 Thrombosis and thromboembolism
136 Common skin wounds and foreign bodies
137 Common fractures and dislocations
138 Common sporting injuries
Part 11 Health of specific groups
139 The health of Indigenous peoples
140 Refugee health
141 Catchy metaphors, similes and colloquial expressions in medicine
Appendix
Index
About the Author :
About the Authors
The renowned John Murtagh is Emeritus Professor in General Practice at Monash University; Professorial Fellow of General Practice at the University of Melbourne; Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Notre Dame and Guest Professor at Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing.
This new edition benefits from the contributions of Dr Jill Rosenblatt as a second medical author and editor. Dr Rosenblatt is a General Practitioner and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Primary Health Care at Monash University whose wealth of rural and urban experience adds a new level of authority to this respected work.
