General Practice [Paperback]

John Murtagh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999 | ISBN-10: 0074707191 | ISBN-13: 978-0074707197 | Edition: 2nd

Anchored by a consistent emphasis on the patient, the Clinical Medicine Series is a vital resource for anyone in the primary care setting, the hospital, or the ambulatory setting. Inside each volume, busy practitioners will find up-to-the-minute patient management advice that no other source can match. And when you factor in the series' affordable price, quick-scan design, and internationally renowned authorship, it's easy to see why the Clinical Medical Series will be first on any dedicated professional's reading list.
-- From a leader in family and community medicine comes the new edition of the incredibly user-friendly reference that employs a symptom-based approach to clinical practice
-- Reviews approach to the patient, the physical exam, probable causes, differential diagnosis, and treatment strategies -- for the full range of conditions encountered in primary practice
-- Superb illustrations and abundant use of tables and charts make diagnosis quick and easy

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About the Author

John Murtagh, AM, is Executive Director, Education at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Adjunct Professor of General Practice at the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice , Monash University, Victoria, Australia. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1208 pages
• Publisher: Appleton & Lange; 2nd edition (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0074707191
• ISBN-13: 978-0074707197
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,330,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for serious GPs, April 21, 2005

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Vincent Chia (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: General Practice (Paperback)

I have the English version of this book. It is an excellent text exhibiting the wealth of clinical experience of Dr Murtagh. Common conditions (as well as not so common maladies) encountered by GPs are dealt with in-depth. Murtagh approaches the topics with a practical, clinical approach; the GP will find the book extremely digestible and applicable to their daily practice. I find the "common pitfalls" section very useful. It allows us to think laterally when approaching an apparently simple condition. If you need a book to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills, this book is the one.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Portuguese (Eu) translation-Tradução em Português (Europeu), October 24, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: General Practice (Hardcover)

It was published in 1996 by McGraw-Hill Portugal the portuguese translation (European Portuguese), ISBN 972-82898-17-X, entitled - Clínica Geral (4200$00 PTE w/ VAT) Foi publicado em 1996 pela McGraw-Hill de Portugal a tradução portuguesa (Português Europeu)ISBN 972-82898-17-X com o título - Clínica Geral 4200$00 PTE c/ IVA A practical 403 pages, pocket size soft cover manual, with a good coverage of clinical practice usual problems in a good translation. Simple and pragmatic approach of the most common daily life pathologies of a GP, from diagnosis to therapeutic approach. I seems very useful for young (or older) GPs, and for specialists which sometimes forget the most simple and current illness and treatments. I like it, and within the scope of this type of book I rate it as very good.

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comments, May 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: General Practice (Hardcover)

I must underline three major problems of the Portuguese translation: The search of a theme is extremely difficult. The main problem is the absence of a final alphabetic index - without excuse in a McGraw Hill edition. Secondly the fact that the initial thematic order in English was not efficiently changed and adapted now that the book is written in portuguese. Thirdly and again without excuse - the drug commercial names used are not locally used - some are not even marketed in Portugal. Final conclusion - in spite of the good scientific translation, the editor was not proficient in editorial matters envolved in a translation - like local adaptation and indexing - jeopardizing an important effort of translation. Maybe the market interest will be appreciated in terms of sales and new local editions will suffer of biased commercial projections. The editor should demonstrate more respect for national readers (may be that it is not the fault of the local country subsidiary, but of a short budget for local initiatives). The joy of finding a good scientific translation in portuguese of a medical text, which deserves our appreciation and total support, is clouded by these details, that in fact make the book difficult to use. Portuguese is one of the most widely spread language through Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, fact that is not usually recognized internationally, and is one of the official languages of the European Community. Please invest more in this kind of translations.