Norman R. Bernstein Alan J. Breslau Jean A. Graham
Each year approximately two million people who are burned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand die from their injuries. "Coping Strategies" provides the burn patient and his/her family a unique source of information and insight on the effects of disfigurement, sexuality, cosmetics, prosthetics, coping with stress, anxiety and guilt, and about employment strategies. These topics are addressed by professionals and survivors and parents of survivors--uniting all points of view and making this work important reading.
Each year approximately two million people who are burned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand di...
I have spent the best part of the last quarter of a century working on the con- sultation service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Much of my satisfaction has stemmed from working with nonpsychiatric physicians, especially in having them come to realize the value of psychological methods in the treatment of their patients. It has always been my belief that learning to understand the patient's mental life was as much a part of medicine as the taking of vital signs. To treat adequately, certainly to treat well, a physician must know something of his patient's thought processes. Teaching...
I have spent the best part of the last quarter of a century working on the con- sultation service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Much of my sa...