General Practice Clinical Cases Uncovered

Rehearse for life in clinical practice with this easy-to-use and unique series, which combines cases drawn from real-life experiences with a refreshing approach to presentations as you would see them in day-to-day situations. Get the most from clinical practice, with Clinical Cases Uncovered With more than 30 cases to work through, General Practice: Clinical Cases Uncovered is perfect for medical students and junior doctors to get to grips with what to expect from Primary Care in the UK. Presented in a narrative style with questions and patient background, everything from a chest infection to panic attacks can be investigated in these real-life situations. This is the ideal resource for exam preparation or attachments and provides up-to-date and concise information when students need it most.

Emma Storr, Academic Unit of Primary Care, University of Leeds

Gail Nicholls, Academic Unit of Primary Care, University of Leeds

Martha Leigh, General Practitioner, Wapping Health Centre and GP Trainer, London Deanery

Preface	p. vii
How to use this book	p. viii
Basics	p. 1
Setting the context	p. 1
Approach to the patient	p. 7
Clinical overview	p. 10
Cases	p. 14
A 40-year-old female smoker with a chest infection	p. 14
A 9-year-old asthmatic child	p. 17
A 27-year-old woman with a headache	p. 22
A 76-year-old man who has been in hospital	p. 26
A 23-year-old man with a red eye	p. 30
A 5-year-old child with earache	p. 35
A 20-year-old woman with a sore throat	p. 39
A 35-year-old man with back pain	p. 43
A 62-year-old woman with a painful shoulder	p. 47
A 35-year-old woman with knee pain	p. 50
A 78-year-old male with rash on trunk	p. 54
A 2-year-old boy with a rash	p. 59
A 17-year-old man with rash and fever	p. 63
A 46-year-old man with indigestion	p. 67
An 8-year-old child with abdominal pain	p. 71
A 26-year-old man with abdominal pain	p. 75
A 78-year-old woman with bruising	p. 78
A 38-year-old man with high blood pressure	p. 83
An 80-year-old woman with funny turns	p. 88
A 43-year-old man with 'weakness'	p. 93
A 23-year-old woman with panic attacks	p. 98
A 24-year-old woman who feels abnormally tired	p. 101
A 54-year-old woman with urinary frequency and hot sweats	p. 105
A 19-year-old woman with vaginal discharge	p. 110
A 34-year-old woman with 'funny periods'	p. 114
A 15-year-old girl with a problem	p. 118
A 27-year-old pregnant woman with backache and anaemia	p. 124
A 42-year-old man with erectile dysfunction	p. 128
A 64-year-old man with prostatism	p. 131
An 82-year-old man with a cough	p. 135
A 44-year-old man who wants a 'check-up'	p. 139
A 49-year-old woman who feels exhausted	p. 145
A 62-year-old woman who is breathless	p. 148
A 10-year-old girl with abdominal pain and recurrent vaginal discharge	p. 152
A 26-year-old woman with lower abdominal pain	p. 156
A 17-year-old girl requesting contraception	p. 160
Self-assessment	p. 166
MCQs	p. 166
EMQs	p. 171
SAQs	p. 174
Answers	p. 176
Additional information, schedules and normal values	p. 183
Index of cases by diagnosis	p. 191
Index	p. 193
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