Author: Milton Burglass
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Health Studies Institute
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1879772094
Patient Alcohol Abuse: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
What alcohol does to abusers brains has a huge impact on society. Medical books Patient Alcohol Abuse. A cocktail after work or a beer with the guys seems innocent enough; but when the consumption increases, so do the problems.
Is there anything you can do? An excerpt from Chapter 6 of Patient Alcohol Abuse: A Guide for Health Care Professionals indicates that many health care workers miss the opportunity to help: The challenge of identifying alcohol misuse is pointed out by a classic statement which Bissell attributes to recovering alcoholics. Such patients, looking back on their early contact with physicians, when diagnosis might have been made but was not, have often said: I didnt volunteer the facts, and no one really asked.
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Medical Book Patient Alcohol Abuse
A cocktail after work or a beer with the guys seems innocent enough; but when the consumption increases, so do the problems.
Is there anything you can do? An excerpt from Chapter 6 of Patient Alcohol Abuse: A Guide for Health Care Professionals indicates that many health care workers miss the opportunity to help: The challenge of identifying alcohol misuse is pointed out by a classic statement which Bissell attributes to recovering alcoholics. Such patients, looking back on their early contact with physicians, when diagnosis might have been made but was not, have often said: I didnt volunteer the facts, and no one really asked.
All clinicians should be highly sensitive to indicators of alcohol misuse; e.g., a dental hygienist may learn of a symptom during conversation with a patient; a nurse may observe a sign while checking a patients blood pressure. Such information, when passed on to dentists or physicians, promotes early identification of patients who are starting to misuse alcohol; it also promotes much-needed identification of chronic drinkers who have never sought or received help and/or those who have relapsed following treatment.
Unlike many drugs, alcohol is legal, but it can be just as addictive. An understanding of the problems of alcohol abuse can make you a valuable resource for patients and for their families.
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