Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Embarrassing moments
Chapter 2 Great mimics
Chapter 3 Masquerades and pitfalls
Chapter 4 Endocrine tales
Chapter 5 Sinister, deadly and not to be missed
Chapter 6 See a doctor, support a lawyer
Chapter 7 Red faces
Chapter 8 Crisis and death
Chapter 9 The concealment syndrome
Chapter 10 Families in conflict
Chapter 11 Tales of the unexpected
Chapter 12 Sacked and rejected
Chapter 13 Musculoskeletal twists and turns
Chapter 14 Special senses
Chapter 15 Sexual twists and capers
Chapter 16 Feverish problems
Chapter 17 Neurological dilemmas
Chapter 18 Children and brain-teasers
Chapter 19 Growing old
Chapter 20 Mysteries of the mind
Chapter 21 Emergencies, home and roadside visits
Chapter 22 Lessons in communication
Chapter 23 Professionalism pitfalls
Chapter 24 Cautionary methods: towards a safe diagnostic strategy

About the Author

John Murtagh, AM, is Executive Director, Education at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Adjunct Professor of General Practice at the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice , Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He is one of Australia's leading GPs and community educators. A Professor in General Practice in the School of Primary Health Care at Monash University in Melbourne, Professorial Fellow in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle.