The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice (Medical Interview)

Obviously there are some sections that aren't very relevant to animals but as a veterinarian I felt like I learned a lot about how to approach medical history taking and the common emotions and challenges that are inherent in the subject. People treat their pets as family fairly often nowadays and keeping this in mind veterinary care becomes a lot more like care for a person that is unable to make health decisions for themself. There is a decent amount of time spent on this topic which was helpful for me to read. I also enjoyed the way the book was layed out and the writing style, it made it much easier to read and even enjoyable instead of being dry like most textbooks.

I am very pleased with my purchase. I bought this book to read on my own...I was introduced to it by a former instructor. The book is very informative and defintely a must if you're going into the medical field where you will have to deal with patients on a regular basis.

Good overview of patient interviewing skills. This covers a lot of the "soft skills" of taking a patient history. It doesn't have much of the clinical reasoning parts, that guide you in the questioning and in provide some direction in information gathering, but is good for someone new to interacting with patients. It is also fairly concise.

Great read for refining medical interview skills to get to the meat and potatoes of what is going on with a client.

Feels like it says the same thing over and over again. No groundbreaking new information. Might be helpful if you have no clinical experience, but anyone whose had any previous experience communicating in clinical probably won't need this book.

Good book, Extremely helpful

The regular Windows version of Kindle can't do a page search....fortunately, the cloud version will do a page search...although it took the first tech who took my call forty minutes of trouble shooting with no resolution before hanging up on me to determine that. The second tech new enough to have me use the cloud version.After an escalation that went to four people, I was at least able to get one book refunded that didn't have page numbers...which was Bates Medical Interviewing book. wooooo hooooo!

Book came in perfect condition and MUCH earlier than expected. I am very happy with the product and I would definitely buy from them again!

医療面接の理論を、ショートダイアログで良い例・悪い例を挙げながら分かりやすく解説している。英語だろうが日本語だろうが良い医療面接ができるようになりたいという人には役に立つと思う。プレゼンテーションに関しても一章割かれている。ただ海外で即戦力としてとりあえず問診をとれるようになりたいのなら、この本とは別の本を探すべきだろう。