How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition

by Marjorie R. Jenkins (ed.), Connie B. Newman MD (ed.) How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care, Second Edition, is an essential resource for primary care clinicians seeking to integrate sex and gender differences into their practice. This edition emphasizes the unique framework that assists practitioners in providing personalized care. It aligns sex and gender medicine with precision medicine, helping healthcare providers attract patients who value clinicians that understand the nuances of sex and gender in healthcare. How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care, Second Edition, includes updates on the evidence-based information on disease prevalence, diagnosis, testing, and treatment, as well as a new chapter on the sex and gender aspects of pain. Each chapter reflects how sex and gender impact disease presentation, physical examination, testing, treatment, and clinical decision-making. Includes case studies and tables that summarize sex and gender differences in diseases Provides Gaps in Knowledge and Practice Points section for the physician Presents a new way of looking at common diseases through a sex and gender lens Includes a new chapter on pain