TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aldrich, C. Knight
TI  - The medical interview: gateway to the doctor-patient relationship
SN  - 1850700141
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Parthenon Publishing Group
KW  - INTERVIEWS, methods
KW  - MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING, methods
KW  - PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS
N1  - Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. The patient, the illness, and the disease. Medical interviewing: preliminary considerations. Medical interviewing: introductions and open-ended questions. Medical interviewing: continuing the interview. Medical interviewing: psychosocial considerations. The next step: a preview of history taking. A sensitive interview. The doctor-patient relationship. Pain. Grief, tears, and hope. Mind-body interaction. Special situations. A final word. Notes and references. Index
N2  - Paperback; An enlarged, revised edition which expands upon the author's original text, setting the sample interview in the hospital instead of the nursing home and including a chapter on pain, its frequency as a symptom, the difficulty in measuring it, and how to help the patient describe it. Other chapters cover: illness and disease; medical interviewing technique; a sensitive interview; the doctor-patient relationship; non-compliance and denial; grief and tears and hope; and emotions and the body. The book also contains a preview of history-taking and an appendix on arranging interviews outside the hospital
ER  -