Talking With Children
CHAPTER 3 Talking With Children Geeta Grover, MD, FAAP CASE STUDY The moment you walk into the examination room, the 2-year-old girl begins to cry and scream uncontrollably. She clings…
Counseling Families About Internet Use
CHAPTER 7 Counseling Families About Internet Use Alan Tomines, MD CASE STUDY A 16-year-old girl is accompanied by her mother for a routine visit. The girl is doing well in…
Talking With Parents
CHAPTER 2 Talking With Parents Geeta Grover, MD, FAAP CASE STUDY An 8-month-old boy with a 1-week history of cough and runny nose; a 2-day history of vomiting, diarrhea, and…
Informatics
CHAPTER 6 Informatics Alan Tomines, MD CASE STUDY You are a physician in a small pediatric practice. Your hospital implemented an electronic health record system, which has been made available…
Primary Care: Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Primary Care: Introduction Niloufar Tehrani, MD CASE STUDY As a primary care physician, you evaluate a 2-year-old boy who is presenting to the office for the first time….
Talking With Adolescents
CHAPTER 4 Talking With Adolescents Monica Sifuentes, MD CASE STUDY This is a first-time visit for a 15-year-old girl who is accompanied by her mother. The mother is concerned because…
Telephone Management and E-medicine
CHAPTER 5 Telephone Management and E-medicine Emily Borman-Shoap, MD, FAAP, and Iris Wagman Borowsky, MD, PhD, FAAP CASE STUDY The mother of an otherwise healthy 10-month-old girl calls and tells…
Infertility: Etiology, Diagnostic Evaluation, Management, Prognosis
Key points • Infertility is considered to be a disease and affects approximately 7% of all U.S. couples of reproductive age—more than 7 million women in the United States. •…
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Key points • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is now diagnosed by the Rotterdam criteria, which are clinical end points, and is not a laboratory diagnosis . The diagnosis requires finding…
In vitro fertilization
Key points • For in vitro fertilization (IVF) with and without intracytoplasmic sperm injection, the delivery rate per cycle in which ova are retrieved is as high as 50%, depending…
