General principles of consent

General Principles of Psychodynamics

r sychiatry is the medical specialty that studies disorders of behavior and experience, both affective and cognitive. Like other branches of medicine, it considers 1) the phenomenology of the normal and abnormal, 2) systems of classification and epidemiological information, 3) etiology, 4) diagnosis, and 5) prevention and treatment. Because human behavior is complex, psychiatry draws on many fi...

General Principles of Pharmacology

1. Progress in Therapeutics 3 Robert E. Stitzel and Joseph J. McPhillips 2. Mechanisms of Drug Action 10 William W. Fleming 3. Drug Absorption and Distribution 20 Timothy S. Tracy 4. Metabolism and Excretion of Drugs •• Timothy S. Tracy 5. Pharmacokinetics •• Timothy S. Tracy 6. Drug Metabolism and Disposition in Pediatric and Gerontological Stages of Life •• Jeane McCarthy 7. Principles of Tox...

Principles of General Physiology

Medical informed consent: general considerations for physicians.

Medical informed consent is essential to the physician's ability to diagnose and treat patients as well as the patient's right to accept or reject clinical evaluation, treatment, or both. Medical informed consent should be an exchange of ideas that buttresses the patient-physician relationship. The consent process should be the foundation of the fiduciary relationship between a patient and a ph...

Hepatitis: general principles.

After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Describe the procedure and interpretation of the laboratory evaluation of hepatitis. 2. Recognize the signs and symptoms of acute and chronic hepatitis.3. Describe the immediate and long-term complications of hepatitis. 4. List the multiple causes of hepatitis in an older child.