The Compulsive Empath: A Guide to the Hard Parts of Adult Primary Care

This isn't just another text full of rehashed disease models and facts you can obtain anywhere. Instead, written in a humorous and conversational style, this book will provide you with insights gleaned from the author's over 30 years of practical experience in adult primary care, plus: * A comprehensive treatment of primary care psychiatry, including mood disorders, chronic pain and mind-body medicine; * A manual of common musculoskeletal problems that you probably didn't learn much about in med school or residency, but that you see every day, AND steroid injection techniques; * A discussion of the basic facets of being a primary care doctor: knowing, connecting, deciding, and communicating; * New, efficient and often more effective approaches to common complaints like headaches, dizziness, and fatigue; * A score of diagnoses you must never, ever miss (but surely will if you aren't vigilant); * And more!

Dr. Jack Birnbaum has won numerous honors in his 32 years of primary care practice, including awards for compassionate care, patient satisfaction and, in 2009, Family Physician of the Year. He is the author of a widely read and acclaimed textbook, "The Musculoskeletal Manual" as well as a novel, "The Winter of Visions and Forgetting." He lives in Southern California with his wife, also a physician.