From: Henry Barry <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:35:57 -0400
To: 'amit kumar ghosh' <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Difficult medical problems
You might look at the new edition of Essentials of Family Medicine
(Sloan, Slatt, Ebell) or Walter Rosser's new book.
Responding to the message of <[log in to unmask]>
from "amit kumar ghosh" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> One of the most challenging thing for a primary care physician is taking care
> of
> patients in an ambulatory setting. it would be great to have an EBM book on
> the
> most challenging problems, which cause frustation among physicians.
> Some of the topics include:
>
> Weight loss in elderly
> fatigue
> The dizzy patient.
> recurrent UTI
> Approach to a patient who has fibromyalgia
> EB pain management
> Patient who says I have multiple allergies.
> abdominal pain with negative workup
> shoulder pain ( exercise vs injection)
> many more......
>
> There seems to be lots of stuff on cholesterol, hypertension, angina. Thanks
> for
> the NNT and RRR it surely has made dealing with these issues easier.
> I sure hope we could pitch in and publish more on these and other outpatient
>
> issues.If someone has information on a book covering these and other topics
> please let me know.Gorroll's book is great, but it would be better if it had
> the
> same approach as Panzer's book on "Diagnostic Strategiesfor common medical
> problems".
>
>
>
> .
Amit Ghosh, MD
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Box 741
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Fax: 612-624-3189
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