The most convenient, authoritative overview of family medicine and primary care-completely updated and expanded!
- Up-to-the-minute, evidence-based advice, including complementary and alternative treatments where appropriate
- Recommendations for both immediate and ongoing management strategies
- Numerous algorithms, charts, and tables
- Developmental organization with sections on infants and children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly
- Easy-to-follow format for disease-specific chapters
- NEW! Increased coverage of heart disease, emergency medicine topics, and more
- NEW! Review of the most recent competency requirements of culture medicine and health disparities
- NEW! Chapters on genetics and pharmacogenomics in clinical practice
