Occupational medicine: a role for the primary care physician.
Knowledge of the general categories of disease-causing exposures is essential to the practice of primary care medicine, but occupational medicine remains an area in which most physicians are markedly undereducated. A relevant occupational history may provide the clues to an otherwise elusive etiology. A directory of resources for the primary physician follows the text of the article.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010821:Physicians, Family