Guide for a general practitioner. 3rd edition. Roitberg G.E.

At the end of the last century, the primary link doctors began to perform the function of dispatchers, the main goal of which is to direct the patient to a narrow specialist. Over time, this situation ceased to arrange doctors, patients and healthcare managers. In 1992, an order was prepared and signed “On a phased transition to the organization of primary medical care on the principle of general practice (family doctor)”, which made it possible to implement the principles of the family doctor in primary health care.

The training of a specialist - a general practitioner (family doctor) is impossible without quality literature. The proposed leadership was prepared by teachers of the department of therapy, general medical practice and nuclear medicine RNIMU named after N. I. Pirogova with the active participation of doctors and teachers of the best school of family doctors - the University of Ayov (USA). The leadership sets out basic information on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that family doctors are found in everyday activity. A distinctive feature of the publication is the brevity and visibility of the presentation of the material. The presented data is based on many years of experience in the work of family doctors and are presented taking into account the features of the provision of medical care in the outpatient and stationary stages with a detailed description of actions in emergency conditions.

The manual is intended for general practitioners (family doctors), therapists, pediatricians, as well as for doctors of all specialties, students of the faculties of post -disciplinary education and students of medical universities.