This concise volume advises primary care physicians on how to recognize, evaluate, and treat common psychiatric and neurologic complaints in patients with medical illness. Patients with these problems used to be referred to specialists, but under the current system of health care they are increasingly being evaluated and treated by internists and family practitioners. The book contains twelve problem-focused chapters, each written by a specialist faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is experienced in consulting with primary care physicians. The problems discussed are sadness, nervousness, forgetfulness, unrealistic concerns about health, suicidal thoughts, alcoholism and drug dependence, weakness, numbness, back pain, headaches, dizziness, and tremor. Screening evaluations for psychiatric and neurologic disorders are also outlined and explained. The book is designed to serve as both an introduction and a convenient reference. The authors emphasize improving communication with patients about issues of diagnosis and treatment.
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This excellent, concise book is a practical, easy to use resource for the busy primary care physician. It compares favorably with any short overview presentation of psychiatric or neurologic symptoms. Doody's Health Sciences Review A very informative text that does an excellent job of introducing to some and presenting to others effective approaches to psychiatric and neurological symptoms. -- M. Ojinga HarrisonMDDuke University Medical Center Journal of Pscychosomatic Research
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Höhe: 227 mm
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978-0-8018-6554-1 (9780801865541)
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Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., is Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Psychiatric Dimensions of Medical Practice and coauthor of The Perspectives of Psychiatry, both available from Johns Hopkins University Press. Orest Hurko, M.D., is an associate professor of neurology, neurological surgery, medicine, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Eugene Meyer III Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and MedicineJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
ProfessorJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
Contents: I Psychiatric Problems Screening Psychiatric Evaluation, Karin J. Neufeld Sadness, John R. Lipsey Nervousness, Michael R. Clark Forgetfulness, Peter V. Rabins Unrealistic Concerns about Health, Mark L. Teitelbaum Suicidal Thoughts, Dean F. MacKinnon Dependence on Alcohol or Drugs, Alan J. Romanoski II Neurological Problems Screening Neurological Evaluation, Orest Hurko Weakness, Richard O'Brien Numbness or Tingling, Vinay Chaudry Back Pain, John Dean Rybock Headaches, David W. Buchholz Dizzy Spells, Peter W. Kaplan Tremor, Stephen G. Reich
