Minnesota Medicine, Volume 96, Issue 10 (2013-10). pp. 26-27.
Language:
English
Abstract:
The author discusses the responsibility of health care professionals to recognize a patient's hidden condition and ask the right questions. She describes a consultation with a Hmong patient whose chief complaints were facial acne and shoulder and wrist pain, but who turned out to be suffering from depression and having suicidal thoughts. The willingness of some patients to tell their physicians about health issues that they are not willing to disclose to their families is also cited. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)