Essentials of Family Medicine Book

	Preface
	Dedication
	Contributors
1	From Cradle to Rocker: Providing Care Across the Human Life Cycle	3
2	Keeping the Focus on "Family" in Family Medicine	19
3	Outside the Office Walls	37
4	Family Practice in an Era of Rapid Change	61
5	The Challenging Patient Encounter	73
6	Information Mastery: Basing Care on the Best Available Evidence	85
7	Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Family Medicine	97
8	Helping Your Patients Stay Healthy	117
9	Pregnancy Prevention and Contraception	127
10	Prenatal Care	153
11	Well Child and Adolescent Care	167
12	Well Adult Care	183
13	Promoting Health for Women at Menopause	201
14	End-of-Life Care	215
15	Approach to Common Problems in Family Medicine	231
16	Abdominal Pain	241
17	Acute Respiratory Infections	259
18	Addiction	277
19	Allergies and Asthma	301
20	Ankle and Knee Pain	327
21	Anxiety and Depression	345
22	Arthritis and Rheumatism	357
23	Breast Problems	377
24	Chest Pain	395
25	Chronic Cardiac Disease	419
26	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	441
27	Diabetes Mellitus	453
28	Dizziness	471
29	Dyspepsia	483
30	Dysuria	495
31	Ear Pain	511
32	Fatigue	523
33	Fever in Infants and Preschool Children	533
34	Headache	547
35	Hypertension	563
36	Leg Pain and Swelling	575
37	Low Back Pain	589
38	Menstrual Syndromes	609
39	Neck Pain	629
40	Prostate Diseases	643
41	Sexually Transmitted Infections	659
42	Shoulder Pain	683
43	Skin Problems	699
44	Skin Wounds: Contusions, Abrasions, Lacerations, and Ulcers	715
45	Sore Throat	727
46	Thyroid Disease	739
47	Vaginitis	763
48	Weight Management and Nutrition	783
	Index	803