The Medical Interview

An enlarged, revised edition which expands upon the author's original text, setting the sample interview in the hospital instead of the nursing home and including a chapter on pain, its frequency as a symptom, the difficulty in measuring it, and how to help the patient describe it. Other chapters cover: illness and disease; medical interviewing technique; a sensitive interview; the doctor-patient relationship; non-compliance and denial; grief and tears and hope; and emotions and the body. The book also contains a preview of history-taking and an appendix on arranging interviews outside the hospital.