Full Description
An authority from the front lines of outpatient medicine explains how to take control of a patient's visit, create an agenda for every encounter, and focus immediately and continually on the essence of the patient's illness. Abundant examples of problem-patients, potential disasters, and symptoms enable the reader to make the most of their limited time.Offers hints, tips, and tricks on patient management to facilitate efficient, effective care. Presents non-conventional techniques such as combining history and physical, remaining close to the patient for the whole visit, artfully interrupting, and planning disposition at outset. Features abundant examples of problem-patients, potential disasters, and symptoms. Provides the technique and strategy needed to revitalize and revamp a medical practice.
Contents
1. Your Mission2. What They Want3. Think Disposition4. People and Patients 5. The Agenda 6. Zen Break7. The Set8. Hospitality and Traffic 9. Crew10. Narcissus 11. Chores 12. The Touch 13. Words and Organs14. Show and Tell15. The Eye16. Am I Interrupting You?17. Cut to the Chase18. Rules and Decisio1ns19. Satisfaction20. Expand That Normal21. Keep It Simple22. Neutral Monsters 23. Suffering 24. Dread25. Aristotle26. So What?27. Socrates28. Days of our Lives29. Not So Great Expectations 30. Compliance 31. The Wolf 32. Somatomancers 33. Martians 34. Tests Won't Save You 35. The Joy of Discontinuation 36. Preaching 37. Panic Button38. Your Study39. Atypical Horses40. What Do You Want?41. Grunge42. The Mountaintop
