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The primary care physician's guide to common psychiatric and neurologic problems

Name: The primary care physician's guide to common psychiatric and neurologic problems
Author: Phillip R. Slavney

Phillip R. Slavney

28 March 2001

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Book Synopsis

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 Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780801865534
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, (28 March 2001)
Number of Pages: 236
Weight: 482 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
Categories:: Neurology and clinical neurophysiology Clinical and internal Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology