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The Primary Care Physician's Guide to Common Psychiatric and Neurologic Problems
Advice on Evaluation and Treatment from Johns Hopkins
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.
About the Authors
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.
Reviews
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.
A very informative text that does an excellent job of introducing to some and presenting to others effective approaches to psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
Endorsements
A ready reference or 'handbook' for the primary care practitioner. The symptom-centered chapters and straightforward language will make this volume very useful in the busy practitioner's office.
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Other Titles by Phillip R. Slavney
Psychiatric Polarities
Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation
Psychiatric Dimensions of Medical Practice
Other Titles by Orest Hurko
Mendelian Inheritance in Man, twelfth edition
Other Titles in MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
Searching for Health
Before and After Loss
Building Healthy Communities through Medical-Religious Partnerships, third edition
Other Titles in Medicine: general issues
Searching for Health
The Morehouse Model
Before and After Loss