Talking with patients.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bird, Brian Rigg, 1913-

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Practitioner's pocket books.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Patient Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Physicians--Patient Relations.

Physical Description:

viii, 154 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1955]

Summary:

Any patient who comes to a doctor, for whatever reason, deserves to be looked at with the broadest kind of vision. It is to be expected that the type of study made and its thoroughness will depend upon the nature and severity of the presenting symptoms, but, regardless of the overt injury or disease, one must, if he is to serve well, reach out in a sensitive way beyond the obvious, searching for the more subtle signs and causes of illness and distress -- signs and causes which patients so commonly do not themselves recognize. Of all the technical aids which increase the doctor's power of observation, none comes even close in value to the skillful use of spoken words -- the words of the doctor and the words of the patient. - Introduction.

Contents:

Introduction

Part one : Adults. Introduction

General aims and objectives

Specific technical points

The angry patient

The patient with hidden anger

The patient who makes the doctor angry

The overly affectionate patient

The patient who asks for advice

The patient who cries

The bereaved patient

The dying patient

The guilty patient

The depressed, suicidal patient

The mentally ill patient

The mentally retarded patient

The anxious patient

The anxious doctor

Discussing fees

Part two : Children. The infant and the toddler

The child who can talk

A child's fear of doctors

The crying child

The child aged four to seven

Example of reaction to injection

Anesthesia

Reaction to injury

Separation from parents

The child's special language

The adolescent patient

Talking with the adolescent about masturbation

Talking with parents.

Notes:

"The Material was published in American practitioner and digest of treatment for May, 1955".

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

OCLC:

753813