Abstract

Completely revised and updated throughout, this new edition of the best-selling title in community pharmacy continues to provide an essential reference for undergraduate and pre-registration pharmacy trainees.

Features:

• New sections on menstrual bleeding and weight loss.
• Clearly structured by basic anatomy, history-taking and body system.
• Fully illustrated throughout.
• Boxes throughout: trigger points indicative of referral; hints and tips.
• Tables throughout: differential diagnosis (key questions for each condition); evidence-based OTC medication; practical prescribing; product selection.
• Self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter.
• Expanded case studies at the end of each chapter

• Covers all the most common conditions and gives evidence to back up over-the-counter (OTC) recommendations.
• Puts the presenting symptoms into the primary-care context.
• Suggests which questions to ask to narrow down the possible diagnoses.
• Gives schematic summaries of how to arrive at a diagnosis.
• Evidence-based boxes as a guide for OTC medication.
• Practical prescribing summary tables.
• Hints and tips boxes for product use.
• Self-assessment sections.
• Case studies at the end of chapters.
• Colour images of important conditions.
• Chapter on specific product requests.
• Useful websites.