Shared Care For Neurology

Neurological problems comprise a large proportion of the practice of general medicine.

Common complaints such as dizziness, headache, weakness and sensory disturbances produce enormous morbidity in the general population.

Important neurological diseases such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy afflict huge numbers of people.

Despite this fact, general physicians tend to be inadequately equipped to deal with these common complaints and diseases effectively.

Many healthcare professionals still labor under the misconception that nervous system problems are difficult or impossible to understand and, worse, that they are largely untreatable.

This has lead to therapeutic nihilism-even as a new era of neuroscience has opened the doors to understanding and treating previously intractable problems.

This book is meant to help the general physician recognize, diagnose and manage the common neurological problems in partnership with the neurologist.

It is meant not only to span the gap between generalist and specialist but also to provide a standard of care that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic in an increasingly global medical community.