Outpatient Medicine
Stephan D. Fihn and Steven R. McGee. 701 pages. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders; 1992. $32.00.
A guide to practice with ambulatory patients. Over 200 short chapters on general considerations (patient satisfaction, communication, compliance, and other issues), preventive services (including periodic assessments, drug abuse, alcoholism, immunization, and screening), constitutional symptoms, and systemic diseases and disorders. Four chapters consider the cancer patient, seven, the pregnant patient, and six, the preoperative patient. Generous use of summary tables. Selected and annotated references.
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