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Social History in Patient Consultations

This document discusses the importance of gathering a patient's social history during a consultation, including their occupation, environment, financial situation, family, education, and lifestyle. It provides examples of common health conditions and diseases that may be associated with different occupations, such as hearing problems and back injuries for airport baggage handlers, dermatitis and back injuries for cleaners, and respiratory problems and physical injuries for farm workers. The document advises doctors to use less medical terminology to help patients better understand their illness or disease.

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Social History in Patient Consultations

This document discusses the importance of gathering a patient's social history during a consultation, including their occupation, environment, financial situation, family, education, and lifestyle. It provides examples of common health conditions and diseases that may be associated with different occupations, such as hearing problems and back injuries for airport baggage handlers, dermatitis and back injuries for cleaners, and respiratory problems and physical injuries for farm workers. The document advises doctors to use less medical terminology to help patients better understand their illness or disease.

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Unit 4

Social history and telephone


consultations
Patient’s Social History
Social History
1. Occupation
2. Environment
3. Financial issues
4. Family
5. Education
6. Lifestyle
Consider the type of conditions/ disease
typically associated with these occupations.

1. Airport baggage handler: hearing problems- back injuries


2. Cleaner: dermatitis - back injuries
3. Coal miner: chronic lung disease -physical injuries
4. Construction worker: lung disease – skin cancer- sun
stroke
5. Farm worker: respiratory problems- prostate cancer-
physical injuries
6. Healthcare professional: back strain- exposure to
contagious disease
7. Keyboard operator: repetitive eye strain – joint pain
8. Manual worker: ischaemic - heart disease – physical
injuries
Patient speak: doctors are advised to use less medical terms in order to make it
more easier for the patient to understand what they need to know about their
illness or disease, so here are some suffixes with there meanings you need to know.
Answer Key

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