The medical interview: gateway to the doctor-patient relationship

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.

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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.