The medical interview : mastering skills for clinical practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coulehan, John L., 1943-
Other Authors: Block, Marian R., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : F.A. Davis Co., [2001]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The poor historian
  • Pt. 1. Basic skills: understanding the patient's story
  • I attach the same meaning
  • Interviewing as a clinical skill
  • Objectivity
  • Interpretation versus observation
  • Precision
  • Sensitivity and specificity
  • Reliability
  • Science and art at work
  • Saga of the fifth wheel
  • Summary: science and art in interviewing
  • With simple, kindly words
  • Respect, genuineness, empathy
  • Respect
  • Genuineness
  • Empathy
  • Levels of responding
  • Using words to identify symptoms and feelings
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Challenges to understanding exactly
  • Summary: core therapeutic skills
  • Why should you come to consult me?
  • The chief complaint and present illness
  • The setting and getting started
  • The chief complaint
  • The present illness
  • A few examples
  • Challenges to eliciting the chief complaint and present illness
  • Summary: chief complaint and history of the present illness
  • Transforming experience into memory
  • Other active problems, past medical history, and family history
  • Other active problems
  • The past medical history
  • Family history
  • Summary: other active problems, past medical history, family history
  • Gaining richness and reality
  • The patient profile
  • What goes into the patient profile?
  • Demographics and occupational history
  • Lifestyle
  • Spirituality and beliefs
  • Relationships
  • Sexual history
  • The patient profile at work
  • Summary: the patient profile
  • No air of finished knowledge
  • The review of systems, physical examination, and closure
  • The review of systems
  • Transition to the physical examination
  • Conversation during the physical examination
  • Ending the interview
  • Summary: the ROS, physical examination, and closure
  • I shall enumerate them to you
  • The clinical narrative
  • Turning the history into the write-up: the clinical narrative
  • Functions of the clinical record
  • Format of the clinical record
  • Problem-oriented records
  • Presenting the patient
  • Communication among professionals
  • Summary: the clinical narrative
  • Pt. 2. Basic skills in practice: special patients and settings
  • Headed in the right direction
  • Pediatric and adolescent interviewing
  • Children versus grown-ups: similarities and differences
  • Setting the stage for effective communication
  • Talking with patients of different ages
  • Summary: techniques for interviewing the young patient
  • A different silhouette
  • Interviewing the geriatric patient
  • The style of the interview
  • The content of the interview
  • Mental status assessment
  • The third party
  • Summary: techniques for interviewing the elderly patient
  • For the moment at least I actually became them
  • Cultural competence in the interview
  • The patients values and your own
  • Interviewing patients of a different culture and language
  • Health beliefs in the interview
  • Summary: culturally sensitive interviewing
  • The real satisfaction
  • Communication with the patient in the office setting
  • Gaining efficiency and focus
  • Specific issues in managed care settings
  • Communicating about prevention and health promotion
  • Truthfulness and confidentiality
  • Summary: communication in the office setting - Pt. 3. Challenges in interviewing
  • Seal up the mouth of outrage
  • Difficult patient-clinician interactions
  • Interactive styles
  • Somatization
  • Difficult feelings in the medical interview
  • Summary: diagnosing and treating the sick
  • Interview
  • Something new and dreadful
  • Telling bad news
  • Barriers to communicating bad news
  • Empathy and interaction in telling bad news
  • Interviewing in palliative care
  • Advance directives
  • Cultural considerations
  • Summary: communicating bad news
  • A great many remedies
  • Talking with patients about complementary and alternative medicine
  • Consider the context
  • Definition, please
  • Who uses CAM?
  • Learning about CAM in the clinical interview
  • Working with the alternatives
  • Summary: talking about CAM
  • The sum of all the general rage
  • Malpractice and the clinical interview
  • Earning trust through mastery of basic skills
  • Building blocks of a negligence-free relationship
  • Informed consent
  • Communication within the health care team
  • Keeping good records: documentation, documentation, documentation
  • Summary: avoiding malpractice claims
  • Not through argument but by contagion
  • Education and negotiation
  • Education: conveying the information
  • Negotiation
  • Summary: influencing the patient
  • The hunt is on
  • The medical interview at work - Appendix: Questionnaires to assist history-taking.