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- 1From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe four guidelines for effective management of oral contraceptive (OC) patients are (1) careful selection of candidates, (2) early recognition of potentially serious problems, (3) accurate information on the potency...
- 2From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis British book has a number of positive characteristics that make it an excellent resource for medical students, residents, and clinicians in practice. First, the text has been written by one person and consequently...
- 3From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn these two books, Derek Humphry and David Cundiff argue and the against voluntary euthanasia, respectively. Humphry contends that pain, dependence, and loss of control are worse than death; he concludes that terminally...
- 4From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPreMED is billed as "a computer-assisted PREventive MEDicine program that helps physicans provide preventive care." The program is based upon the US Preventive Services Task Force (USP-STF) Guide to Clinical Preventive...
- 5From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the past 8 years, seveal pediatric critical care textbooks have been published providing an authorative approach to the diagnosis and management of the critically ill child. Such references, however, cannot be used...
- 6From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Alcohol abuse among patients with diabetes mellitus is dangerous and complicates therapy, but its prevalence and the factors that predict it are unknown. This study examined the prevalence of problem drinking...
- 7From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn these two books, Derek Humphry and David Cundiff argue and the against voluntary euthanasia, respectively. Humphry contends that pain, dependence, and loss of control are worse than death; he concludes that terminally...
- 8From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women, with mammographic screening the only modality shown to decrease the death rate. However, only 17% to 41% of women have ever been...
- 9From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTwo-month-old Jason had been viciously beaten, that was apparent. the radiologist just served to confirm that fact as he showed us in black-and-white detail the findings in Jason's x-ray films, explicitly describing...
- 10From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. The use of radiography in evaluating inversion ankle injuries remains high despite several studies suggesting that x-ray examination should be limited to patients meeting certain clinical criteria. These...
- 11From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRemember recently when you were about to rush out of one examining room and into the next? Your patient grabbed your hand, looked into your eyes, and, in a trembling voice, implored, "I have come to love you as my...
- 12From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Conventional wisdom holds that the elderly living in rural areas suffer poor health and have limited access to health care compared with their urban peers. The relation between poor health and limited...
- 13From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Depression is one of the most common medical disorders seen in primary care practice. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of depressive symptoms in primary care patients across the...
- 14From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt has been said that the need to be needed is a prime motive in a person's decision to enter a career in medicine.[1] The choice of a specialty, however, is governed by other considerations, since the need to be needed...
- 15From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedProper nutrition is essential for growth, development, and well-being. In addition, many dietary factors contribute to preventable illness and premature death. For example, diet is a factor in five of the leading causes...
- 16From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMost cases of lower leg pain in athletes result from musculoskeletal injury. Occassionally these patients do not respond to treatment in a timely fashion. This should alert the clinician to rethink the original...
- 17From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground. In effect since 1991, the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) requires that institutions receiving government insurance payments document that they have informed patients of their right to decide on...
- 18From: Journal of Family Practice. (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedUntil recently, the content, structure, and function of communication between doctors and patients has received little attention and has been excluded from the realm of scientific inquiry; as a result, most clinicians...