evaluation would encompass the following elements:
- The cause of patient visits or admission
- Medical history and medication consumed (medicine, dosage, prescribing physician, side effects or allergies, patient adherence to the treatment)
- Psychiatric history
- Present legal or forensic issues
- Social condition (housing status, family, religion, cultural background, finances)
- Abuse or violence (including incidents of abuse or violence related to any kids in the care of the individual, together with knowledge of reporting obligation)
- The MSE or Mental Status Examination – an unbiased evaluation of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive aspects)
- Current functioning level
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past three days and dribbling urination.
HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: A patient visits complaining about urination with a burning sensation, pelvic genital pain, frequent and urgent urination, urine which is colored for three days and dribbling urination. He is an African American who is 58 years old. However, he denies having fever.
Assessment
This 58-year-old man describes his symptoms as having urination with a burning sensation, pelvic genital pain, frequent and urgent urination, urine which is colored for three days and dribbling urination. These symptoms show that he has a urinary tract infection commonly known as UTI. This infection has been… Continue Reading...
to afford the high costs of new-patient visits (Givens, 2009). Shi & Singh (2015) contend that even though the U.S. healthcare system is renowned for providing some of the best clinical care across the globe, it has failed to provide equitable services to all Americans. U.S. healthcare system has been found ineffective in terms of offering cost-efficient services to different patient populations. Therefore, I do not believe that the United States has the best healthcare in the world because of the huge flaws in the system.
References
Givens, J. (2009). Doctor Shortage: Who Should Fill It?… Continue Reading...
