Product Description: An account of the principles and methods of family general practice, this text is aimed at medical students and trainee general practitioners. It traces the differences between the general and specialized practice of medicine, and decribes what is involved in running a general family practice...read more

Product Description: Since the previous edition of Ian McWhinney's text was published in 1989, family medicine has assumed an increasingly important role in the modern health care system. The growth of managed care in The United States and of similar movements in other countries has made it more important than ever to define and conceptualize the discipline and to synthesize its body of knowledge and skills...read more