Instructors and practitioners of family and internal medicine provide their colleagues with an evidence-based approach to the most common and important infectious diseases they are likely to encounter and be able to handle without referring patients to specialists. Emphasizing the parsimonious use of antibiotics when evidence indicates they would be helpful, and knowledgeable restraint otherwise, they consider upper respiratory, gastrointestinal, sexually transmitted, skin, bone, joint, and other infections. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)