Blythe Andrew - Essential Primary Care

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 06
7. Chapter 07
8. Chapter 08
9. Chapter 09
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20
21. Chapter 21
22. Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23
24. Chapter 24
25. Chapter 25
26. Chapter 26
27. Chapter 27
28. Chapter 28
29. Chapter 29
30. Chapter 30
31. Chapter 31
32. Chapter 32
33. Chapter 33
34. Chapter 34
35. Chapter 35
36. Chapter 36
37. Chapter 37
38. Chapter 38
39. Chapter 39
40. Chapter 40

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 03
3. Chapter 04
4. Chapter 06
5. Chapter 08
6. Chapter 09
7. Chapter 10
8. Chapter 11
9. Chapter 12
10. Chapter 13
11. Chapter 15
12. Chapter 17
13. Chapter 18
14. Chapter 19
15. Chapter 21
16. Chapter 22
17. Chapter 23
18. Chapter 24
19. Chapter 25
20. Chapter 26
21. Chapter 27
22. Chapter 28
23. Chapter 29
24. Chapter 30
25. Chapter 32
26. Chapter 34
27. Chapter 36
28. Chapter 37
29. Chapter 38
30. Chapter 40

This book is dedicated to

Mina, Robbie and Laura Blythe

Walter, Sam, Isobel and Rufus Buchan

With our love

Andrew Blythe and Jessica Buchan

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Essential primary care / edited by Andrew Blythe, Jessica Buchan.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-86761-7 (pbk.)
I.Blythe, Andrew, 1965, editor.II.Buchan, Jessica, editor.
[DNLM: 1.Primary Health CareGreat Britain. W 84.6 FA1]
RA440
362.10714226dc23

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All of the contributors are practising GPs and are members of the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol.

Andrew Blythe
Senior Teaching Fellow

Jessica Buchan
Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

Polly Duncan
Academic Clinical Fellow

Gene Feder
Professor of Primary Care

Alastair Hay
Professor of Primary Care

Sarah Jahfar
Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

Lucy Jenkins
Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

David Kessler
Reader in Primary Care Mental Health

Barbara Laue
Senior Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

Matthew Ridd
Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Care

Trevor Thompson
Reader in Healthcare Education

Simon Thornton
Academic Clinical Fellow

For many medical students, the first place they will encounter patients will be in general practice. Later in their course, they will have extended attachments to practices and will have the chance to consult with patients themselves. The experience can be exciting and interesting, but also a bit overwhelming. Patients come to the GP to talk about anything and everything. They present with physical, psychological or social problems, and sometimes all three types of problem at once. They do not turn up and describe a neatly packaged problem, but often have a jumble of symptoms which dont obviously correspond to any of the anatomical or physiological systems. How can a medical student know where to start when faced with such a wide range of potential problems?