Taking the clinical history
Subtitle: eliciting symptoms, knowing the patient, ethical foundations
By: William E. DeMyer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195373776
Subjects: Medical history taking; Medical ethics; Medical History Taking -- methods; Ethics, Medical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Outline of the clinical history; title: Basic definitions : disease, symptoms, signs, syndromes, and diagnosis; title: The importance of the clinical history; title: How the physician's ethics and goals determine the content and techniques of the clinical history; title: Privacy, the setting, and the apparel for an optimum clinical history; title: The patient's chief concern and present illness; title: The past clinical history and the review of systems; title: The family history; title: The psychosocial history and mental status history; title: The pregnancy and developmental history (for pediatric patients); title: The preventive history and wellness; title: Succeeding with the difficult history; title: Ending the clinical history, recording it, and integrating it with the physical examination; title: The history, appropriate management, informed consent, and patient autonomy; title: The clinical history of the medical model compared to alternative models; title: Fostering empathy and compassion.