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| The basis of general practice | |
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| The nature and content of general practice | |
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| The family | |
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| Consulting skills | |
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| Communication skills | |
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| Counselling skills | |
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| Difficult, demanding and angry patients | |
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| Health promotion and patient education | |
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| The elderly patient | |
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| Prevention in general practice | |
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| Nutrition in health and illness | |
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| Palliative care | |
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| Pain and its management | |
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| Research and evidence-based medicine | |
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| Travel medicine | |
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| Tropical medicine and the returned traveller | |
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| Laboratory investigations | |
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| Inspection as a clinical skill | |
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| A safe diagnostic strategy | |
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| Genetic conditions | |
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| Diagnostic perspective in general practice | |
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| Depression | |
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| Diabetes mellitus: diagnosis | |
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| Drug problems | |
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| Anaemia | |
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| Thyroid and other endocrine disorders | |
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| Spinal dysfunction | |
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| Urinary tract infection | |
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| Malignant disease | |
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| HIV/AIDS—could it be HIV? | |
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| Baffling viral and protozoal infections | |
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| Baffling bacterial infections | |
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| Infections of the central nervous system | |
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| Chronic kidney failure | |
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| Connective tissue disease and the vasculitides | |
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| Neurological dilemmas | |
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| Problem solving in general practice | |
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| Abdominal pain | |
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| Arthritis | |
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| Anorectal disorders | |
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| Thoracic back pain | |
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| Low back pain | |
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| Bruising and bleeding | |
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| Chest pain | |
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| Constipation | |
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| Cough | |
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| Deafness and hearing loss | |
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| Diarrhoea | |
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| The disturbed patient | |
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| Dizziness/vertigo | |
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| Dyspepsia (indigestion) | |
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| Dysphagia | |
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| Dyspnoea | |
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| The painful ear | |
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| The red and tender eye | |
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| Pain in the face | |
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| Fever and chills | |
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| Faints, fits and funny turns | |
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| Haematemesis and melaena | |
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| Headache | |
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| Hoarseness | |
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| Jaundice | |
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| Nasal disorders | |
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| Nausea and vomiting | |
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| Neck lumps | |
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| Neck pain | |
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| Shoulder pain | |
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| Pain in the arm and hand | |
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| Hip, buttock and groin pain | |
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| Pain in the leg | |
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| The painful knee | |
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| Pain in the foot and ankle | |
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| Walking difficulty and leg swelling | |
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| Palpitations | |
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| Sleep disorders | |
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| Sore mouth and tongue | |
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| Sore throat | |
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| Tiredness/fatigue | |
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| The unconscious patient | |
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| Urinary disorders | |
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| Visual failure | |
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| Weight gain | |
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| Weight loss | |
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| Child and adolescent health | |
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| An approach to the child | |
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| Specific problems of children | |
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| Surgical problems in children | |
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| Common childhood infectious diseases (including skin eruptions) | |
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| Behaviour disorders in children | |
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| Child abuse | |
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| Emergencies in children | |
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| Adolescent health | |
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| Women���s health | |
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| Cervical cancer and Pap smears | |
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| Family planning | |
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| Breast pain (mastalgia) | |
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| Lumps in the breast | |
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| Abnormal uterine bleeding | |
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| Lower abdominal and pelvic pain in women | |
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| Premenstrual syndrome | |
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| The menopause | |
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| Osteoporosis | |
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| Vaginal discharge | |
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| Vulvar disorders | |
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| Domestic violence and sexual assault | |
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| Basic antenatal care | |
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| Infections in pregnancy | |
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| High-risk pregnancy | |
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| Postnatal care | |
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| Men���s health | |
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| Men���s health: an overview | |
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| Scrotal pain | |
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| Inguinoscrotal lumps | |
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| Disorders of the penis | |
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| Disorders of the prostate | |
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| Sexually related problems | |
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| The subfertile couple | |
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| Sexual health | |
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| Sexually transmitted infections | |
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| Problems of the skin | |
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| A diagnostic and management approach to skin problems | |
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| Pruritus | |
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| Common skin problems | |
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| Acute skin eruptions | |
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| Skin ulcers | |
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| Common lumps and bumps | |
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| Pigmented skin lesions | |
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| Hair disorders | |
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| Nail disorders | |
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| Chronic disorders: continuing management | |
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| Alcohol problems | |
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| Allergic disorders including hay fever | |
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| Anxiety disorders | |
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| Asthma | |
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| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
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| Epilepsy | |
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| Hypertension | |
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| Dyslipidaemia | |
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| Diabetes mellitus: management | |
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| Chronic heart failure | |
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| Accident and emergency medicine | |
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| Emergency care | |
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| The doctor���s bag and other emergency equipment | |
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| Stroke and transient ischaemic attacks | |
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| Thrombosis and thromboembolism | |
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| Common skin wounds and foreign bodies | |
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| Common fractures and dislocations | |
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| Common sporting injuries | |
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| Health of specific groups | |
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| The health of Indigenous peoples | |
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| Refugee health | |
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| Catchy metaphors, similes and colloquial expressions in medicine | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |