Travel medicine
chapter 45 Travel medicine INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW There has been an increasing trend for people to travel internationally.1 Ease of air transportation has ensured that nearly 1 billion people travel…
GENERAL SURGERY
Gastroenterology
chapter 30 Gastroenterology INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW The adage ‘you are what you eat’ is only partly true. In fact, you are what you eat, manage to digest and absorb across…
Men’s health
chapter 48 Men’s health INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW When discussing men’s health, it is important to appreciate that there are two aspects to the subject: • diseases that are common to…
Substance (drug and alcohol) misuse
chapter 62 Substance (drug and alcohol) misuse INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW We define a drug (substance) as a chemical entity, self-administered (non-medically) for its psychoactive effect. The effect usually includes a…
HIV management in general practice
chapter 60 HIV management in general practice INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has had, since the early 1980s, a global impact of unprecedented scale, including the decimation…
Medical ethics
chapter 20 Medical ethics INTRODUCTION Ethics: ‘Relating to morals, treating of moral questions. Set of principles of morals, science of morals, moral principles, rules of conduct.’ Oxford Dictionary ‘Ethics’ is…
