Berkowitz's Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach

The new 4th edition of Berkowitz’s Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach  is custom-built for efficient primary care problem-solving. It provides concise, practice-oriented guidance on all the most common issues — both clinical and psychosocial — you’re likely to encounter. Here’s hands-on help on topics ranging from temper tantrums and thumb-sucking to childhood cancer, kidney disease, and diabetes.

 

Each clinical chapter reviews pertinent epidemiology and pathophysiology, then gives you clear, concise guidelines on what symptoms to look for, what alternative diagnoses to consider, what tests to order, and how to manage your patient.

 

Updated edition features 13 all-new chapters including:

- Global Health

- Cultural Considerations and Competence

- Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management

- Complementary and Alternative Medicine

- Pediatric Radiology

- Principles of Pediatric Surgery

- Genomics

- Quality Improvement

- Caring for Immigrant Children and Their Families

- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

- Interpersonal Violence

- Palliative Care

- Emerging Infections

Carol D. Berkowitz, MD, FAAP is currently Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Distinguished Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and has held numerous other national leadership positions including serving on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). She is a delegate from the AAP to the American Medical Association (AMA) and serves on the AMA’s Council on Medical Education. In addition to serving as editor for Berkowitz’s Pediatrics she has authored several hundred articles and book chapters.