General Practice

This third edition continues to use a simple, problem-based approach and a logical, formulaic structure for the diagnosis and treatment of a plethora of common medical conditions. There are eleven new chapters on areas that have since the previous edition become more common in today's society. Included are chapters on: Pain and its management, Sleep disorders, and, Nutrition in health and illness. The technical, pharmaceutical, procedural and bibliographical material has been updated, and also new to the book are discussions on topical issues such as anthrax and hormone replacement therapy. "General Practice" is one of McGraw-Hill Australia's best selling, most reputable and well-established titles. It is the 'Bible' for general practitioners and medical students of community medicine, written by Australia's most respected GP, John Murtagh.

Table of Contents:
The author

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Normal values: worth knowing by heart

Abbreviations used in this text

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 Palliative care
8 The elderly patient
9 Prevention in general practice
10 Nutrition in health and illness
11 Health promotion and patient education
12 Pain and its management
13 Whole person approach to management
14 Travel and tropical medicine
15 Research and evidence-based medicine
16 Laboratory investigations

Part 2 Diagnostic perspective in general practice
17 Inspection as a clinical skill
18 A safe diagnostic strategy
19 Genetic disorders
20 Depression
21 Diabetes mellitus
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 Chronic renal failure
32 Connective tissue disorders and the vasculitides
33 Neurological dilemmas

Part 3 Problem solving in general practice
34 Abdominal pain
35 Arthritis
36 Anorectal disorders
37 Low back pain
38 Thoracic back pain
39 Bruising and bleeding
40 Chest pain
41 Constipation
42 Cough
43 Deafness and hearing loss
44 Diarrhoea
45 The disturbed patient
46 Dizziness
47 Dyspepsia (indigestion)
48 Dysphagia
49 Dyspnoea
50 The painful ear
51 The red and tender eye
52 Pain in the face
53 Fever and chills
54 Faints, fits and funny turns
55 Haematemesis and melaena
56 Headache
57 Hoarseness
58 Jaundice
59 Nausea and vomiting
60 Neck lumps
61 Neck pain
62 Shoulder pain
63 Pain in the arm and hand
64 Hip and buttock pain
65 Pain in the leg
66 The painful knee
67 Pain in the foot and ankle
68 Walking difficulty
69 Palpitations
70 Sleep disorders
71 Sore mouth and tongue
72 Sore throat
73 Tiredness
74 The unconscious patient
75 Urinary disorders
76 Visual failure
77 Weight gain
78 Weight loss

Part 4 Child and adolescent health
79 An approach to the child
80 Specific problems of children
81 Common childhood infectious diseases (including skin eruptions)
82 Behaviour disorders in children
83 Child abuse
84 Emergencies in children
85 Adolescent health

Part 5 Women's Health
86 Cervical cancer and Pap smears
87 Family planning
88 Breast pain (mastalgia)
89 Lumps in the breast
90 Abnormal uterine bleeding
91 Lower abdominal and pelvic pain in women
92 Premenstrual syndrome
93 The menopause and osteoporosis
94 Vaginal discharge
95 Vulvar disorders
96 Domestic violence and sexual assault
97 Basic antenatal care
98 High-risk pregnancy
99 Postnatal care

Part 6 Men's health
100 Men's health: an overview
101 Scrotal pain
102 Inguinoscrotal lumps
103 Disorders of the penis
104 Disorders of the prostate

Part 7 Sexually related problems
105 The subfertile couple
106 Sexual health
107 Sexually transmitted infections

Part 8 Problems of the skin
108 A diagnostic and management approach to skin problems
109 Pruritus
110 Common skin problems
111 Acute skin eruptions
112 Skin ulcers
113 Common lumps and bumps
114 Pigmented skin lesions
115 Hair disorders
116 Nail disorders

Part 9 Common continuing management problems
117 Alcohol problems
118 Allergic disorders including hay fever
119 Anxiety
120 Asthma
121 Epilepsy
122 Hypertension
123 Dyslipidaemia
124 Rational prescribing

Part 10 Accident and emergency medicine
125 Emergency care
126 Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks
127 Common skin wounds and foreign bodies
128 Common fractures and dislocations
129 Common sporting injuries
130 Major trauma
131 The doctor's bag and other emergency equipment
132 The treatment room and equipment
133 Special community disasters

Part 11 Aboriginal health
134 The health of Indigenous peoples

Appendices
I Percentile charts: infant girls
II Percentile charts: infant boys
III Percentile charts: girls
IV Percentile charts: boys
V Predicted values for peak expiratory flow rates
VI The Australian Nutrition Foundation: weight for height chart