Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 616 EAN: 9780071438605 ISBN: 0071438602 Label: McGraw-Hill Medical Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 475 Publication Date: November 27, 2007 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Sales Rank: 358184 Studio: McGraw-Hill Medical
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care delivers practical coverage of behavioral and interactional issues that occur between provider and patient in everday clincial practice. You will learn how to deliver bad news, how to conduct an effective patient interview, how to clinically manage behavioral issues in the dying patient, the principles of medical professionalism, behavioral issues in men's and women's heatlh, and much more.
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Rating: - Professional
Excellent textbook choice for beginning students in health care. Wide range of biobehavioral topics, clinical application with case studies.
Nancy Jo Bush, RN, MN, MA, NP
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA School of Nursing
Rating: - behavior is medicine
I teach med students and residents and find that this book is one of the best resources to describe the overlay between behavior and physiology. So many students say "well, that psychology stuff is just intuitive......I know what I'd feel" without recognizing that what they feel isn't the point - what their patients feel is! This book builds the necessary bridge between intuition and research.
My students express surprise that there IS a science behind behavior and there ARE ways to break ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent aid in the primary care setting!
This book is a wonderful overview of both common and difficult issues in the clinic setting, and very relevant to outpatient practice. It is easy reading, but full of practical tips and up-to-date references. I would recommend it to every primary care resident as an aid in their training.
- Professional
- behavior is medicine
