Meghan M Kiefer MDMPH - Pocket Notebook: Pocket Primary Care, 2e

Pocket

PRIMARY
CARE

Second Edition

Edited by

M EGHAN M. K IEFER , MD, MPH

C URTIS R. C HONG , MD, PhD, MPhil, FACP

A Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kiefer, Meghan, editor. | Chong, Curtis, editor.

Title: Pocket primary care / edited by Meghan M. Kiefer, Curtis R. Chong.

Other titles: Pocket primary care (Kiefer) | Pocket notebook.

Description: Second edition. | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2018] | Series: Pocket notebook | A Massachusetts General Hospital handbook. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017055856 | ISBN 9781975106126 (loose-leaf)

Subjects: | MESH: Primary Health Care | Handbooks

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Andrew Allegretti, MD, MSc

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Renal/Urology Section Editor) MGH 13

Brandon Auerbach, MD, MPH

Attending Physician, Virginia Mason Medical Center (Obesity) MGH 15

Kimberly G. Blumenthal, MD

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HEENT Section Editor) MGH 12

Michael Bowley, MD, PhD

Assistant in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School (Neurology Section Editor) MGH Neurology 13

Brian Boyle, MD

Psychiatry Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital (Anxiety and Panic Disorders, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Depression)

Allen Chang, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School (Mens Health Section Editor) MGH 12

Curtis R. Chong, MD, PhD, MPhil, FACP

Attending Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Hematology and Oncology Section Editor, Elbow Pain) MGH 11

Jacqueline T. Chu, MD

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Infectious Disease Section Editor) MGH 14

Warren Chuang, MD

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Advance Care Planning, Dementia)

Daniel Daunis, MD

Psychiatry Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital (Bipolar Disorder, Difficult Patient, Psychotic Disorders, and Medications)

Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Subspecialty Education Coordinator, MGH Division of Cardiology; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Adult Congenital Heart Disease) MGH 06

David Dudzinski, MD, JD

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, MGH Division of Cardiology; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Cardiology Section Editor) MGH 09

Lindsay T. Fourman, MD

Endocrinology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital; Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Endocrine Section Editor)

J. Scott Gabrielsen, MD, PhD

Fellow in Mens Reproductive Surgery and Medicine, Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine (Mens Health Section Editor, Incontinence) MGH Urology 17

Sarah N. Gee, MD

Attending Physician, Vitalogy Skincare (Dermatology Section Editor) MGH Dermatology 12

Benjamin Gigliotti, MD

Endocrinology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital; Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Thyroid Disease)

Stacey Gray, MD

Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School