Interviewing and Patient Care [Paperback]

This standard text on medical interviewing retains its core of open-ended and more directed interviewing techniques, but the Fourth Edition is more firmly anchored in the everyday practice of medicine. It contains much new material on the components of the medical history, interviewing cognitively impaired patients, interviewing children and their parents and the elderly, the interview in continuing care and when time is limited, delivering bad news, and many other practical issues.

1. The Interview in Clinical Medicine
2. Basic Interviewing
3. The Medical History
4. Interviewing Patients Under Special Circumstances
5. Emotional Responses to Patients and to Illness
6. Interviewing Children,K. Brummel-Smith
7. Interviewing the Family
8. Interviewing the Older Adult
9. Continuing Care
10. Giving Bad News/ Discussing Advance Directives,G.H. Gordon