How general practitioners can help subfertile couples.

Can general practitioners counsel?

It has been suggested that general practitioners are in a prime position to counsel patients presenting with psychosocial problems. While many doctors use counselling skills in their consultations few have received training in counselling and the difference between the use of counselling skills and the process of counselling is not always understood. This paper examines the differences between ...

How can evidence-based medicine help patients in general practice?

Family doctors are generalise: any experience which an individual perceives as problematic can become the legitimate concern of a GP, if it is brought up in a consultation. One of the fundamental tasks of the GP is to interpret a person's story. Here, the doctor tries to establish if the person's sense of unease suggests the onset of a discrete identifiable disease, or has its origins in other ...

How acupuncture can help

People with vertigo have the illusion that the environment is moving about them, or that they are moving with respect to the environment.(DTB 2009) The condition usually originates in the peripheral nervous system, for example, due to a disorder of the inner ear such as Ménière's disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), or labyrinthitis and vestibular neuritis. It can also be due t...

How private practitioners help to control TB.

Role of semen analysis in subfertile couples.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the associations between the results of the male partner's semen analysis (classified according to the World Health Organization [WHO] criteria) and fathering a child without any treatment. DESIGN Prospective multicenter cohort study. SETTING Twenty subfertility centers in The Netherlands. PATIENT(S) A total of 3,345 consecutive couples presenting for subfertility. ...