Edward B. Noffsinger 2009 ‘‘The good news is that you scored higher on your exercise tolerance tests than anybody we’ve tested except for our young residents,’’ I recall my renowned pulmonologist telling me as I apprehensively sat across from his desk to hear about my test results on that fateful day in late 1991. ‘‘Unfortunately, your tests are […]
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Richard B. Gunderman 2009 Leadership in Healthcare by Richard Gunderman is a marvelous and much needed book that examines the essential role of leadership in the future of the medical profession. As Gunderman notes in the first chapter: ‘‘To think outside the box, we need to read and converse outside the confines of our discipline.’’
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Miklós Szendrői · Franklin H. Sim (Eds.) 2009 The evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders is often problematic because of the variety of diseases and diagnostic complexity. Th is is compounded by the increasing specialization in this field.
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Michael R. Barratt Sam L. Pool Editors 2008 In 1768, Captain James Cook was preparing his vessel, the Whitby collier Endeavour, and her crew for an extended sea voyage. At that time, mortality rates of 50% or more were not uncommon for trade voyages.
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Tamara McClintock Greenberg 2007 Medicine is a rapidly changing field. The many variables in the practice of modern medicine—the influence of technology on medicine, HMOs, the complicated psychological dynamics that patients bring to physicians, the changes in pharmacological treatments for mental disorders, and family dynamics and interactions—all make the practice of medicine difficult and complicated.
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Robert B. Taylor Editor 2006 After more than a quarter century as a primary care educator, I am convinced that our graduates enter practice inadequately trained in the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal problems and injuries. One reason for this perceived deficiency is the relatively short duration of primary care training—typically three years for family medicine, general internal medicine, and […]
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Edward J. Shahady Editor 2006
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Thomas L. McKnight 2006 Obesity Management in Family Practice applies the best evidence-based obesity science and national recommendations to patients in the primary care setting. The approach is based on the viewpoint that obesity is a chronic disease that can be controlled by the patient.
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By Matthew L. Mintz 2006 Common Challenges in Primary Care
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Steven M. Hollenberg Tracy Walker 2006 Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an enormous problem in industrialized nations. Despite a declining incidence, an estimated 70 million Americans have some form of CVD, which causes more than 700,000 deaths and prompts 6.4 million hospital admissions each year.
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