A Practical Guide to Common Presenting Complaints in Primary Care

This is a practical guide to managing patients in an adult primary care setting with the emphasis on the word practical. The student or practitioner who learns and follows the information in this guide will be a solid primary care provider. This guide is a great resource for medical students to prepare for the family medicine shelf exam, and for the lay person who wants to have a more focused understanding of the common causes of common health issues. It is a more useful reference than the overwhelming information that comes from an internet search.

This is a practical guide to managing patients in an adult primary care setting with the emphasis on the word practical. This guide covers the majority of the underlying causes of the 30 most common presenting complaints in primary care, along with recommended management for common laboratory abnormalities. It also lists those potentially serious diagnoses that should not be missed. This guide also includes additional useful tips from a functional medicine perspective. The student or practitioner who learns and follows the information in this guide will be a solid primary care provider. This guide is a great resource for medical students to prepare for the family medicine shelf exam, and for the lay person who wants to have a more focused understanding of the common causes of common health issues. It is a more useful reference than the overwhelming information that comes from an internet search.

Andrew Lenhardt, MD, is a board-certified family doctor with an extensive background in functional and integrative medicine. He is the author of two books, "The Best of All Worlds: A Family Doctor's Path to Integrative Medicine" and "Emotional Intelligence in a Complex World." Dr. Lenhardt is on the faculty of Tufts Medical School, Endicott College and Yale University, and has been teaching medical students and nurse practitioner students for over 15 years. He has developed the algorithms used for the RootFinder tool at Complex Health Solutions. In his personal life, Dr. Lenhardt is married with three sons, and has two Pomeranians. His interests include pickleball, bridge and exotic travel.