Synopses & Reviews
The latest edition of this highly successful introduciton to medical interviewing has three new chapters--"Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Illness and to Patients," "Interviewing the Older Adult," and "Interviewing and Continuing Care"--as well as a new section on eliciting the sexual history. Focusing on the human side of the clinician-patient interaction, this concise, practical work will be of great value to medical, nursing, and allied health students. From reviews of the second edition: "A superb book....It is aimed at medical students, for all of whom it should be required reading, but even a Fellow of the American College of Physicians could gain a great deal from its study."--Annals of Internal Medicine.
Synopsis
This standard text on medical interviewing retains its core of open-ended and more directed interviewing techniques, but the Fourth Edition is more firmly anchored in the everyday practice of medicine. It contains much new material on the components of the medical history, interviewing cognitively impaired patients, interviewing children and their parents and the elderly, the interview in continuing care and when time is limited, delivering bad news, and many other practical issues.
Table of Contents
1. The Interview in Clinical Medicine
2. Basic Interviewing
3. The Medical History
4. Interviewing Patients Under Special Circumstances
5. Emotional Responses to Patients and to Illness
6. Interviewing Children, K. Brummel-Smith
7. Interviewing the Family
8. Interviewing the Older Adult
9. Continuing Care
10. Giving Bad News/ Discussing Advance Directives, G.H. Gordon