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XIII. Management of the anaemic patient in general practice
Abstract
Anaemia is one of the easiest conditions to recognize, yet in spite of this patients are frequently mismanaged. Treatment with iron, liver extract, folic acid or vitamin B12 is often prescribed prematurely without a precise diagnosis being made, not infrequently in the form of proprietary preparations containing combinations of all
these substances. When such haphazard treatment is followed by improvement, further investigations are often not undertaken and underlying disease is missed. It is always worth while for the doctor to try and answer the question: Why did this patient become anaemic?
