Difficult Cases in Primary Care ─ Women Health

Razaq, a general practitioner in the UK, compiles 20 clinical scenarios related to women's health to show how they present and are managed in primary care. Each scenario is followed by exam-style questions (to provide practice for objective structured clinical exams medical students and trainees in the UK take, as well as clinical skills assessment), explanation, and additional extended matching, single best answer, and multiple-choice questions. Scenarios relate to pregnancy and chickenpox, depression, sexually transmitted infections, obesity, and malaria; abdominal masses; premenstrual syndrome; bacterial vaginosis; recurrent miscarriage and preterm birth; managing a rhesus D-negative pregnancy; hormone replacement therapy; polycystic ovarian syndrome; chronic tiredness; female sexual dysfunction; hyperemesis gravidarum; abortion; recurrent yeast infection; endometriosis and fertility; osteoporosis; and the D-dimer blood test. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)