Question

186 Chapter 22 Chapter Assignment Sheets 3. A male patient you are interviewing denies that he smokes, but his fingers are stained yellow from netine and he smells of tobacco smoke. What questions might you ask to clarify his response? 4. The health and well-being of family members contributes what kind of information to a patient's medica history? When that information is essentially unknown for some reason, such as adoption, non information addressed in the patient's record?

Answer 1

1. If a male patient denies that he smokes, but his fingers are stained yellow from nicotine and he smells of tobacco smoke, the questions to be asked to clarify are:

• Do you use any other form of tobacco?
• What is that yellow stain on your fingers?
• You do have a strong tobacco smell, do you have any reason for that if you don't smoke?
• Are you willing to do a tobacco smoker's test?

2. a) The health and wellbeing of family members contribute to the family history part in a patient's medical record. When the family history of a patient is unknown as in the case of an adopted patient, in the medical record this will be given either as unknown, patient adopted or as biological parents not known.