What if? Survival Guide for Physicians

Cover\r......Page 1
What if...Survival Guide for Physicians\r......Page 2
Copyright © 2007 by F. A. Davis Company......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
First-Time Student Experiences\r......Page 10
What if...A patient or patient’s family thinks you’re a real doctor?\r......Page 12
What if . . .You feel faint at the bedside or in the operating room?\r......Page 16
What if . . .The first patient you’re assigned to examine refuses?\r......Page 18
What if . . .Your patient doesn’t speak English?\r......Page 22
What if . . .Your patient is violent?\r......Page 26
What if . . .You have to assist in an operation you’ve never seen before?\r......Page 30
What if . . .Your family member is diagnosed with cancer at your own facility?\r......Page 34
What if . . . You’re examining your first deaf patient?\r......Page 40
What if . . . You’re examining your first blind patient?\r......Page 44
What if . . . You’re being one-upped by another student during rounds?\r......Page 48
What if . . . You’re asked by a senior clinician, “Have you eve seen one of these done before”?\r......Page 52
What if . . . You’re on the “hotseat” during morning rounds with a professor, attending physician, or other senior clinician?\r......Page 56
What if . . .You feel the way that a colleague speaks to or about patients is inappropriate?\r......Page 60
What if . . . You’re faced with a tyrannical colleague?\r......Page 66
What if . . .It’s your first day in class or your residency and you feel your acceptance was an error and you don’t belong there?\r......Page 72
What if . . .You have been up too many hours and are having trouble thinking?\r......Page 76
What if . . . You’re failing or failed a course in medical school?\r......Page 80
Emergency!......Page 84
What if . . .You’re starting an IV and the catheter breaks off in the vein?\r......Page 86
What if . . .You get stuck witha dirty needle?\r......Page 88
What if . . .A patient has a cockroach or similar insect inher ear canal?\r......Page 92
What if . . .A patient, friend, or family member has a tick burrowed into his skin?\r......Page 96
What if . . . You’re examining a patient in the Emergency Department and you discover a gun tucked in his waistband (belt)?\r......Page 100
What if . . . You’re resuscitating a patient in a hospital and there is a gunman loose in the hallways?\r......Page 102
What if . . . Your morbidly obese patient needs a venous cutdown or other invasive procedure?\r......Page 104
What if . . . Someone collapse sat a social function you’re attending?\r......Page 108
What if . . .You have to deliver a baby outside the hospital?\r......Page 112
What if . . .The baby you just delivered outside the hospital isn’t breathing?\r......Page 118
What if . . . You’re present at an automobile accident?\r......Page 124
What if . . .A dinner guest is choking?\r......Page 128
What if . . .You need to help someone who’s a lawyer?\r......Page 134
What if . . . You’re asked to use an AED in an airplane or other public place?\r......Page 138
What if . . .You encounter an unanticipated allergic reaction?\r......Page 142
What if . . .Your companion has a nosebleed that won’t stop?\r......Page 148
What if . . .Your friend has a foreign body in the eye?\r......Page 152
One-on-One Encounters\r......Page 156
What if . . .A patient makes a sexual advance toward you?\r......Page 158
What if . . .A patient of the opposite sex doesn’t want you in the exam room?\r......Page 162
What if . . .You have to give a patient bad news?\r......Page 166
What if . . . A patient or family member asks you tough questions that you aren’t sure how to answer?\r......Page 168
What if . . .You think a patient is faking?\r......Page 172
What if . . . You’re developing inappropriate feelings toward a patient such as anger or attachment?\r......Page 176
What if . . .A patient is highly fearful of needles?\r......Page 182
What if . . .A patient threatens your life?\r......Page 186
What if . . .Your patient is upset with the care you’re providing?\r......Page 188
What if . . .You have to say “no” to a patient’s request?\r......Page 192
What if . . .A patient refuses treatment?\r......Page 196
What if . . .A patient is a herpetophile and brings a pet snake into the exam room?\r......Page 200
What if . . .You have to give a family very bad news?\r......Page 202
What if . . .The presence of a young child’s parents is getting in the way?\r......Page 206
What if . . .You think a pediatric patient is a victim of abuse?\r......Page 210
What if . . .You make a mistake with a patient?\r......Page 214
What if . . . There is a very bad outcome to a labor and delivery that you were involved with?\r......Page 218
Faraway Adventures\r......Page 222
What if . . . You’re miles from help on a mountain trail and you or your companion suffers a serious injury?\r......Page 224
What if . . .Your hiking companion suffers a shoulder dislocation?\r......Page 228
What if . . . You’re hiking or skiing at high altitude and you or a companion shows signs of severe altitude sickness?\r......Page 232
What if . . . Your hiking companion says, “I just can’t go any farther”?\r......Page 236
What if . . .You need to care fora snakebite victim on a mountain trail?\r......Page 240
What if . . .You have a close encounter with a bat? \r......Page 244
What if . . . You’re lost in the mountains and out of water?\r......Page 248
What if . . . You’re stranded overnight or longer?\r......Page 252
What if . . . You’re getting frostbite?\r......Page 258
What if . . .Your friend is struck by lightning?\r......Page 262
What if . . .Your friend suffers a fracture on a mountain trail?\r......Page 266
What if . . . You’re trapped by an avalanche?\r......Page 272
What if . . .Your friend is attacked by a wild animal? \r......Page 278
What if . . .You or a friend gets a jellyfish sting?\r......Page 282
What if . . .Your diving companion has severe tooth pain?\r......Page 286
What if . . .Your diving companion has severe vertigo?\r......Page 290
What if . . . Your diving companion has subconjunctival hemorrhages? \r......Page 294
What if . . . Your diving companion becomes ill the day after diving?\r......Page 296
What if . . .You or a friend falls through the ice?\r......Page 300
What if . . .You or your friend develops diarrhea in a foreign country?\r......Page 304
Index......Page 308