This reference book is designed to be used to find medication doses and guidance for other management easily and promptly.

Lifestyle medicine has arisen as a relatively new (adjunct) discipline to assist conventional approaches to clinical care in dealing with lifestyle and environmental disease.

Lifestyle medicine adds to conventional medicine by closely examining environmental and distal determinants and individual behaviours that influence disease.

Accurate diagnosis and treatment of diving-related otological injuries by general practitioners can have profound positive effects on a patient’s long-term outcomes.

A female patient, aged 59 years, presents with an 8 mm slightly raised lump on the right lateral border of the tongue.

A low dietary energy intake relative to exercise energy demands may result in an array of medical issues.

Black salve is promoted as an effective, safe and natural skin cancer treatment, but such claims are not evidence-based, and serious complications have been reported.

The knowledge produced by Cochrane reviews informs the guidelines that shape our responses to clinical presentations in general practice.

General practice terms diversify the prevocational experiences of interns and help consolidate rural career pathways.

An individualised approach is needed to provide pre-travel health advice and immunisation.

Timely use of appropriate imaging for sports injuries is required for optimal outcomes.

Local anaesthetic eye drops have recently been advocated as a safe analgesic following eye injuries, but the evidence is limited and the risks are significant.

Many adverse events following immunisation are unlikely to be confirmed as true vaccine allergies but rather as coincidental symptoms that may mimic an allergic reaction.

The two professions have evolved with different social drivers and scientific underpinnings, with only a recent appreciation of the connections between the health of the mouth and the body.

Knowledge of common injuries and a clear understanding of an athlete’s goals are the bases for successful injury management.