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The Primary Care Physician's Guide to Common Psychiatric and Neurologic

Problems. Advice on Evaluation and Treatment from Johns Hopkins

ISBN-13: 9780801865534
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Phillip R. Slavney, Edited by Orest Hurko
Price: AUD $143.00
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Local release date: 14/05/2001
Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Medical ethics & professional conduct [MBDC]

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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.

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

""A very informative text that does an excellent job of introducing to some and presenting to others effective approaches to psychiatric and neurological symptoms.""

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