Clinical Communication Skills in Medicine - A Primer for MRCP PACES (MasterPass) (Jan 17, 2025)_(1032875666)_(CRC Press).pdf

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Preface
About the Author
Section I Conveying Abnormal Test Results
	Case 1 The 51-Year-Old Woman with a Possible Brain Tumour
	Case 2 The 22-Year-Old Woman with Type 1 Diabetes
	Case 3 The 28-Year-Old Woman with a Positive HIV Test Result
	Case 4 The 66-Year-Old Man with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
	Case 5 The 74-Year-Old Man with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
	Case 6 The 27-Year-Old Woman with Possible Coeliac Disease
	Case 7 The 30-Year-Old Woman with Tuberculosis
	Case 8 The 34-Year-Old Man with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Section II Counselling on Disease Management
	Case 9 The 22-Year-Old Man with Recurrent Episodes of Fainting
	Case 10 The 24-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
	Case 11 The 37-Year-Old Woman with Functional Dyspepsia
	Case 12 The 46-Year-Old Man with Poorly Controlled Diabetes Mellitus
	Case 13 The 78-Year-Old Woman with Hyponatraemia
	Case 14 The 26-Year-Old Woman Who Has Had an Anaphylactic Reaction
	Case 15 The 48-Year-Old Man with Alcohol Use Disorder
	Case 16 The 28-Year-Old Woman with Possible Lupus Nephritis
Section III Capacity, Consent, and Confidentiality
	Case 17 The 19-Year-Old Girl Whose Father Objects to a Lumbar Puncture
	Case 18 The 66-Year-Old Man Who Does Not Wish to Start Dialysis
	Case 19 The 33-Year-Old Man Who Is Refusing the HIV Test
	Case 20 The 52-Year-Old Man Who Wants to Get Discharged against Medical Advice
	Case 21 The 77-Year-Old Man Whose Daughter Asks You Not to Reveal the Diagnosis of Cancer to Him
	Case 22 The 37-Year-Old Man with Gonorrhoea Who Asks You Not to Tell His Wife about His Diagnosis
Section IV Challenging Patients and Relatives
	Case 23 The 26-Year-Old Man Who Is Asking to Be Tested for Huntington’s Disease
	Case 24 The 46-Year-Old Man Who Is Not Compliant with His Anti-Hypertensive Medication
	Case 25 The 65-Year-Old Woman Who Wants to Try Herbal Treatment for Her Lymphoma
	Case 26 The 24-Year-Old Man with Difficult Asthma
	Case 27 The 63-Year-Old Woman Whose Husband Asks You Not to Discharge Her
	Case 28 The 42-Year-Old Man with Non-Specific Back Pain Who Demands a Scan
	Case 29 The 47-Year-Old Man Who Is Demanding Strong Opioids for His Chronic Back Pain
	Case 30 The 43-Year-Old Woman with No Diagnosis Despite Extensive Evaluation
	Case 31 The 66-Year-Old Man Whose Sister Does Not Agree with Your Diagnosis
Section V When Things Go Wrong
	Case 32 The 68-Year-Old Man Whose Stroke Was Not Diagnosed in Time
	Case 33 The 74-Year-Old Woman Who Has Suffered Harm Because of a Medication Error
	Case 34 The 78-Year-Old Man Who Fell Off His Bed in the Ward
	Case 35 The 73-Year-Old Man Who Was Exposed to COVID in the Hospital
	Case 36 The 27-Year-Old Woman with a Severe Allergic Reaction to Sulfasalazine
	Case 37 The 69-Year-Old Woman Whose Cord Compression Was Not Diagnosed in Time
Section VI End-of-Life Issues
	Case 38 The 69-Year-Old Woman Who Wants to Make a Living Will
	Case 39 The 82-Year-Old Woman for Whom the Medical Team Feels That CPR Should Not Be Attempted
	Case 40 The 68-Year-Old Man with Motor Neurone Disease Who Needs Artificial Feeding
	Case 41 The 70-Year-Old Man with Acute Exacerbation of COPD
	Case 42 The 81-Year-Old Man Who Is Terminally Ill
	Case 43 The 45-Year-Old Man with Severe Brain Haemorrhage
	Case 44 The 59-Year-Old Man Who Has Just Died from Myocardial Infarction
	Case 45 The 53-Year-Old Woman Whose Death Is Unexplained
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