Amazon.com description: Product Description: A reference providing practical guidelines on patient care issues and medical problems that arise in office-based paediatric practice. All chapters follow a consistent format designed for quick information retrieval and many chapters include treatment algorithms. This third edition features a new section on rehabilitation and remediation of the child with a disability. Other new chapters cover managed care, formula feeding, the immigrant or refugee child, domestic and peer violence, gifted and talented children, adoption, obsessive-compulsive disorder, disciplining young children, adolescent homosexuality, the mature or emancipated minor, school-based health care, and the optimal classroom setting for a child with disabilities. This edition also includes a discussion of how antibiotics work and why they fail and guidelines for tuberculosis screening and prophylaxis.