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Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice

Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice more books like this

by John Coulehan, Marian Block

This text addresses the practical and tacit issues involved in the medical interview as the critical tool for the establishment and continution of a clinician-patient relationship. It contains real-life examples of interviews; explains how to reduce malpractice suits through effective communication; provides guidelines on how to talk to patients ...

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Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the Er

Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death in the Er more books like this

by Paul Austin

In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself. "It turns out there are all kinds of things about working in an ER that most of us haven't learned from TV or having sat in one. In "Something for the Pain," Paul Austin--the ER doc you'd hope to get if something really ...

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Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding

Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding more books like this

by Shawn Christopher Shea, M.D.

The new, revised 2nd Edition of this popular book presents specific strategies and practical methods for conducting thorough psychiatric assessments. Essential psychiatric interviewing techniques from a variety of disciplines provide readers with a strong theoretical foundation and a broad scope of reference. This resource also illustrates the use ...

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The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice

The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice more books like this

by Roger MacKinnon, Robert Michels

In this extensively revised and expanded new edition of the classic, The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice, the authors continue to address the challenges inherent in clinical interviewing?A?A?A?A?A?A?A?Athe complexities of defense mechanisms, conflicts, wishes, and fantasies?A?A?A?A?A?A?A?Aas they did in their original 1971 edition while ...

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Working with the Problem Drinker: A Solutionfocused Approach

Working with the Problem Drinker: A Solutionfocused Approach more books like this

by Insoo Kim Berg, Scott D Miller

At a time when the accepted standard treatment for alcoholism is long-term and expensive - and still has a high rate of failure - solution-focused therapy, as developed at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, in the US, puts into practice the most recent thinking and research in an elegant, brief and cost-effective model. This book ...

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The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine more books like this

by Eric J Cassell

This is a revised and expanded edition of a classic in palliative medicine, originally pulished in 1991. With three new chapters and a new preface summarizing the progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-have for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back ...

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Treating Traumatized Children: New Insights and Creative Interventions

Treating Traumatized Children: New Insights and Creative Interventions more books like this

by Beverly James

Listening to a small child describe a parent's murder can tax the most seasoned professional. Cases of physical and sexual abuse where trauma was deliberately inflicted can particularly challenge a practitioner's defenses. "Treating Traumatized Children" is the first handbook to provide specific guidance and tools for treating children who have ...

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Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer

Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer more books like this

by David Watts

Have you ever wondered what life is like on the other side of the stethoscope? Combining the grace and precision of a poet with a down-to-earth, compassionate manner, physician and NPR commentator David Watts reveals what it's really like to be a doctor today. From difficult diagnoses, irreverent colleagues, brave survivors, and examining room ...

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The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness

The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness more books like this

by Michael Stein

Filling a vital need, this groundbreaking book examines and illuminates the emotional terrain of illness.

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Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians more books like this

by Bernard Lo

Every day clinicians face ethical dilemmas, many of which result from medical advances and challenges in managed care. How practitioners resolve these challenges has a direct impact on patient care. This timely Third Edition will keep you up to date on a wide range of ethical dilemmas and new ways of thinking about them. Highlights of this edition ...

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Group Process for the Health Professions more books like this

by Edward E Sampson

Introduces the fundamental theories, concepts, issues and approaches needed to understand group dynamics. The text also develops the skills that are needed for effective intervention in a group's ongoing process. This book should be of interest to health professionals.

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The Clinical Encounter: A Guide to the Medical Interview and Case Presentation more books like this

by J Andrew Billings

This is an essential guide to the first step of patient evaluation interviewing medical students. Section I is a basic guide to the medical interview and to oral and written case presentation. Section II provides interview strategies for example, treating distraught patients, ways to share bad news, and how to elicit sensitive information on ...

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How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals more books like this

by Rob Buckman

"An expert in breaking bad news is not someone who gets it right every time; she or he is merely someone who gets it wrong less often, and who is less flustered when things do not go smoothly." -- from the Introduction

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Learning from the Patient more books like this

by Patrick J Casement

Throughout Europe, Patrick Casement's work on the interactional aspects of the therapeutic process is well known and highly acclaimed. In Casement's lucid treatise, LEARNING FROM THE PATIENT, everything in psychoanalytic theory and technique is up for questioning and for careful testing in the clinical setting; every concept used is explained and ...

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On Learning from Patient PB more books like this

by Patrick Casement

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When Doctors Become Patients more books like this

by Dr. Robert Klitzman, M.D.

For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness - not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the 'invincible doctor' role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. ...

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Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine more books like this

by Danielle Ofri

In INCIDENTAL FINDINGS, Danielle Ofri's second book (after SINGULAR INTIMACIES) about her experiences as a physician, she vividly portrays the world of a young doctor as she makes her way through her daily routine. Ofri's experiences are varied and fascinating. She explains why she left her beloved Manhattan to take a temporary job at a small ...

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The Healer's Art more books like this

by Eric J Cassell

Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, "the healer's art." Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipotence in the healer's art, illness and disease, and overcoming the fear of death. Eric J. Cassell, M.D., is an internist and clinical director of the ...

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Interpreting & Holding more books like this

by Jeffrey Seinfeld (Editor)

This book demonstrates that both interpreting and holding are necessary in the psychotherapy of clinical disorders. There is a tendency to view interpreting and holding as mutually exclusive techniques. This either/or position is the result of theories that view patients as suffering either from deficits in early nurturing object relations or ...

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The Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy more books like this

by David S Werman

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101 Common Therapeutic Blunder more books like this

by Richard C Robertiello, Gerald Schoenewolf

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Transference Countertrans (P) more books like this

by Nathan Schwartz-Salant (Editor), Murray Stein, Ph.D. (Editor)

Fundamental issues of transference and countertransference are dealt with in reference to subjects such as dreams, eating disorders, sexual acting out, and borderline conditions.

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Skills for communicating with patients more books like this

by Dr. Jonathan Silverman, Suzanne Kurtz, Juliet Draper

Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education and in both specialist and family medicine. Since their publication, the first edition ...

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Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine more books like this

by American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (Acofp), Kenneth E Nelson, Thomas Glonek

This clinically oriented textbook provides a patient-focused approach to the diagnosis and treatment of somatic dysfunction - functional impairment of the musculoskeletal system and related neural and vascular elements - in the context of family medicine practice. The book explains the clinical rationale for osteopathic manipulative treatment in ...

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Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer more books like this

by H David Watts, David Watts

In a page-turning collection of vignettes, doctor, poet, and frequent NPR commentator David Watts captures with great humanity and wit the complicated relationship between the sick and the well.

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