Dealing with low-incidence serious diseases in general practice

Dealing with low-incidence serious diseases in general practice.

Cost-effective health care depends on high-quality triage. The most challenging aspect of triage, which GPs confront on a regular basis, is diagnosing rare but serious disease. Failure to shoulder any risk in this situation overloads the health system and subjects patients to unnecessary investigation. Adopting too high a risk threshold leads to missed cases, late diagnosis, and sometimes avoid...

Dealing with schizophrenia in general practice

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness of unknown aetiology, and impairs cognition and social and occupational functioning. It is challenging in terms of the disability it causes, the unclear nature of what causes it, the complexity of diagnosis and treatment limitations. General practitioners can play a role in various phases of the illness, from early intervention to chronic care, in liaison ...

Venereal Diseases in General Practice

Skin Diseases in General Practice

Blood Diseases in General Practice

This pocket, monograph series of books on practical medicine has proved a great, success, and we must congratulate the publishers on their enterprise. However, it cannot have entailed any great mental strain on their part to think of the name ' Piney' when the question of a book on blood diseases arose: they are fortunate in having been able to negotiate I he next, step successfully. It is quit...