Contributors
Preface
part One INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL MEDICINE
1 The Practice of Medicine
2 Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine
3 Decision-Making in Clinical Medicine
4 Economic Issues in Clinical Medicine
5 Influence of Environmental and Occupational Hazards on Disease
6 Women's Health
7 Medical Disorders Problems
8 Adolescent Health Problems
9 Geriatric Medicine
10 Principles of Disease Prevention
11 Alternative Mdeicine
Part Two CARDINAL MANIFESTATIONS AND PRESENTATION OF DISEASES
SECTION 1 PAIN
12 Pain:Pathophysiology and Management
13 Chest Discomfort and Palpitations
14 Abdominal Pain
15 Headache,Including Migraine and Cluster Headache
16 Back and Neck Pain
SECTION 2 ALERATIONS IN BODY TEMPERATURE
17 Fever and Hyperthermia
18 Fever and Rash
19 Approach to the Acutely Ill Infected Febrile Patient
20 Hypothermia and Frostbite
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Part Three GENETICS AND DISASE
Part Four CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Part Five NUTRITI
Part Six ONCOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY
Part Seven INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Part Eight DISORDERS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Part Nine DISORDERS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Part Ten DISORDERS OF THE KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT
Part Eleven DISORDERS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM
Part Twelve DISORDERS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND JOINTS
Part Thirteen ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Part Fourteen NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS
Part Fifteen ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
APPENDICES
INDEX