MANAGING PATIENTS IN GENERAL-PRACTICE

General practitioners will, in the near future, have several choices o f how to treat patients with peptic ulcer disease, as there will be ma ny treatment guidelines that present different combinations of acid-in hibitory drugs, such as omeprazole, and antibiotics. However, they wil l still be left with the problem of who to treat, because patients do not present with a confirmed diagnosis; rather, they present with dysp eptic symptoms.