Fundamentals of Family Medicine : The Family Medicine Clerkship Book - Softcover

Robert B. Taylor,Alan K. David,D. Melessa Philips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387984453 ISBN 13: 9780387984452

Publisher: Springer, 1998

Synopsis

Like the highly successful first edition, the second edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE presents the medical student and practioner with common clinical problems of family practice, placing special emphasis on those problems most common in the office setting. Topics such as pregnancy, labor and delivery, common problems of the elderly, headache, hypertension, urinary tract infections, osteoarthritis, HIV, anxiety disorders and athletic injuries covered in the first edition will be thoroughly reviewed and updated and include new information on drugs as well as new case studies. The second edition will also include new discussion questions, new information on problems of the infant and child and tables describing the Folstein Minimental Status Exam and assessment of the elderly. An unique, continuing feature of FUNDAMENTALS... will be The Index Family paradigm -- a three generation extended family with selected illnesses. A genogram will introduce this family model and specific family memebers will form the basis of case presentations for discussions that follow each chapter. Useful material on clinical prevention, consultations and referrals will also be updated and featured. This book -- clinical, portable and easy-to-use -- is a "must have" for all medical students in Family Medicine.

About this title

About the Author

Robert B. Taylor, M.D. is Professor Emeritus at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine in Portland, Oregon.  A 1961 graduate of the Temple University School of Medicine, the author trained in the United States Public Health Service Hospital at Norfolk, Virginia, and was in private family practice in New Paltz, New York for fourteen years.  In 1978 he joined the faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  In 1984, Dr. Taylor moved to Oregon, where he served as Chairman of the Family Medicine Department of the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine until 1998 He is the author and editor of 25 medical books including Family Medicine: Principles And Practice (6 editions), White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage And Misadventures, Medical Wisdom And Doctoring: The Art Of 21st Century Medicine,  Essential Medical Facts Every Clinician Should Know, and Diagnostic Principles and Applications.  Dr. Taylor, who currently resides in Virginia Beach, VA, and his wife, Anita, have two daughters and four grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387984453
• ISBN 13: 9780387984452
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 220