Overview

This inspirational guide provides an innovative framework for understanding the consultation. It is concise, easy-to-read and highly accessible, presenting a simple and easily remembered nonlinear diagram which facilitates the understanding of this richly complex process. Inspired by the work of Balint, it beautifully reflects the narrative of the consultation in its tone, with examples and anecdotes illustrating key concepts. It is highly effective as a primary teaching aid for undergraduate medical students, as a refresher for those in practice, an aide memoire to good consulting, a template for case analysis and reflection, and a diagnostic aid when consultations have gone wrong. The approach is recommended for all GP trainees, nurse practitioners and pharmacists where it has proven to be an immense help at all levels of experience and skill. 'Peter's thoughtful model will hopefully enable future practitioners of medicine to argue against any retrograde move towards paternalism and authoritarianism. His book carefully explains why the consultation needs to be re- established as the central endeavour of us all, the means towards achieving shared understanding, placing patients in charge of their own destiny and enabling doctors to have fulfilling and lasting careers.' Jonathan Silverman in his Foreword

Full Product Details

Author:   Peter Bailey ,  Jonathan Silverman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Edition:   1st New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781846198984

ISBN 10:   1846198984
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. About the author. Part one: The synoptic view of the consultation. Introduction. The puzzle and the picture: introducing the synoptic view. The doctor. The patient. The illness. The patient's story of the illness: fractals. The patient's story of the illness: narrative. The patient's story of the illness: somatisation. The doctor's story of the illness. The doctor - patient relationship. The three golden questions. Working with children. The social context of the doctor. The social context of the illness. The social context of the patient. The authority of the consultation. Part two: Consultations that go wrong: using the synoptic view as a diagnostic aid. Introduction. Dysfunction: the doctor. Dysfunction: the patient. Dysfunction: the illness. Dysfunction: the patient's story of the illness. Dysfunction: the doctor's story of the illness. Dysfunction: the doctor-patient relationship. Dysfunction: the social context of the doctor. Dysfunction: the social context of the illness. Dysfunction: the social context of the patient. Part three: Personal reflections on other models of the consultation. Models of the consultation. References. Index.

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PETER BAILEY MB BS BSc DCH DRCOG MRCGP Freelance General Practitioner, Cambridge

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