Författare: Kerryn Phelps

Geriatric Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series details the medical and consulting knowledge required of a General Practitioner when managing older patients. The world’s popula …

Herb-Drug Interactions – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series provides an introduction to herb-drug interactions. Complementary medicines such as herbal medicines are available through a …

Women’s Health – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series covers Breast Disease, Gynaecology and Menopause and details the medical and consulting knowledge required of a General Practitioner …

Neurology – General Practice: The Integrative Approach discusses common neurological symptoms and disorders encountered in general practice such as headache, funny turns, motor weakness, disturbances …

Gastroenterology – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series offers advice for diagnosing and formulating a management plan for patients with gastrointestinal problems keeping in mind not jus …

The Essence of Good Health – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series, gives an outline of the ESSENCE model of healthcare. ESSENCE is a mnemonic:E – Education S – Stress Management S – Spir …

Cardiology – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series, explores the basic elements of assessing the cardiovascular system and then describes the major cardiovascular conditions presenting in …

Mind Body Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. The main premise of MBM is that the mind (intelligence) governs or regulates the body. Although mind is non-physical-and theref …

Cancer – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. Integrative cancer care requires a comprehensive and well-coordinated team or virtual team approach. The general practitioner with an integ …

Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. The most common psychiatric disorders presenting to General Practitioners are depression, anxiety, adjustmen …

Men’s Health – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. This chapter discusses men’s health including erectile dysfunction, testicular cancer, prostate disease and also deals with the diffi …

Integrative Medicine – General Practice the Integrative Approach Series. This chapter introduces the concept of integrative medicine and the healthcare revolution. The emergence of evidence-based med …

Immune System – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. The human immune system is extremely complex, with intricate multidirectional connections between our gastrointestinal, psychologica …

Endocrinology – General Practice the Integrative Approach Series. Endocrine problems are important in the general practice setting, for a range of reasons. First, they are common enough to occur regu …

Weight Problems and Eating Disorders – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter discusses anorexia and bulimia-like disorders. These eating disorders are characterised by the use of i …

Sexual Health – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Sexual health medicine is generally thought of as primarily concerned with the management of sexually transmissible infections (STIs). Whil …

Urology – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Symptoms suggesting urological pathology are common presentations in primary care. These include recurrent urinary tract infections, frequency an …

Bones – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Bones are complex organs with many important functions, the most obvious being structural. They provide support for the body and the means by which …

Child health and development – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. While not an extensive overview of paediatric ill health, this chapter addresses a range of common problems presenting in a …

Substance Misuse – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. We define a drug (substance) as a chemical entity, self administered (non-medically) for its psychoactive effect. The effect usually inc …

Allergies – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce you to the basics of allergy, what the practitioner should know in order to plan an effective integ …

Exercise as Therapy – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Physical exercise involves the voluntary movement of the body, incorporating large muscle groups, with the goal of enjoyment, relaxat …

Genetic Conditions – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Genetic conditions are those that are directly or indirectly due to a pathogenic variation in a person’s genome that is present at bir …

Managing Pain – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. One of the most common reasons for people presenting to a healthcare practitioner is the presence of pain. Taking an integrative approach t …

The Skin – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter provides a framework to enable a clinician to approach skin conditions from an integrative perspective, using some common condition …

Sleep Disorders – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. There are many types of sleep disorders, with different aetiologies, presentations and treatments. Generally, sleep disorders can be clas …

Respiratory Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. The human respiratory system is complex and finely tuned. Fortunately, two factors are of enormous benefit to us. First, there is a …

Detoxification – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. In this chapter we examine what toxins are, where they are found and how they can affect body systems to cause illness. We also examine th …

Communicating with Patients – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter introduces a patient-centred approach to General Practice and how to effectively communicate with patients is al …

Sports Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Most initial presentations for sports injuries will be to a hospital accident and emergency department or to the general practitioner. Re …

Ear, nose and throat – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. This chapter is a brief summation of commonly encountered otolaryngology, head and neck issues in general practice including the ear …

Eyes – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Essential ocular conditions likely to present to a general practitioner also overlap to some extent with those seen in the emergency department. We …

Palliative Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series begins by detailing the medical and consulting knowledge required of a General Practitioner and also discusses aetiology, sympt …

Travel Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Travel medicine is a new multidisciplinary specialty area that has emerged in response to the growing needs of the travelling population …

Diabetes – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. Diabetes mellitus is classified into several types: type 1 diabetes, LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood) or ’type 1.5 diabetes’, type …

Pregnancy and antenatal care – General Practice: The Integrative Approach. General practitioners see patients throughout their life cycle, and integrative healthcare begins before conception and cont …

Practice Essentials – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series this chapter provides a checklist of the important factors to consider in establishing and operating an integrative health clin …

Medical Ethics – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series – ’Ethics’ is a word derived from the Greek ethikos, which means ’habit’ or ’custom’. Put simply, in modern usage it is the study of …

Adolescent Health & Development – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. The essence of good adolescent healthcare consists of: understanding adolescent development recognising the intima …

Spirituality – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. ’Spirituality’ means different things to different individuals and there is no one way of exploring or expressing it. The search for …

Nails – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. Nails are important for adornment. Smooth, lustrous nails are considered a sign of health and beauty. The rapid growth of nail salons demons …

Joints and Connective Tissues – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. In order to diagnose and manage the patient presenting with musculoskeletal symptoms, it is important to distinguish …

Musculoskeletal Medicine – General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series. Musculoskeletal medicine (MSM) is that branch of medicine dealing with the conservative management of disorders of the mu …

Power of Balance is the landmarkmemoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired her to create change throughout her lifetime. From medicine, media, politics, adv …