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Title A physician's guide to return to work / editors, James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn
Published [Chicago, Ill.] : AMA Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Why staying at work or returning to work is in the patient's best interest / James B. Talmage, and J. Mark Melhorn -- How to think about work ability and work restrictions: risk, capacity, and tolerance / James B. Talmage, and J. Mark Melhorn -- How to negotiate return to work / J. Mark Melhorn -- Return to work: forms, records, and disclaimers / J. Mark Melhorn --
Evidence-based medicine / Elizabeth Genovese -- Causation analysis / Elizabeth Genovese -- Functional capacity evaluation: is it helpful? / David C. Randolph, Trang Nguyen, Phillip Osborne -- The medical and legal aspects of return-to-work decision making / Paul F. Waldner, and Lezzlie E. Hornsby -- Can this patient work? a disability perspective / John LoCascio --
Medications, driving, and work / Gerald M. Aronoff, Michael Erdil, and Natalie Hartenbaum -- How the primary care physician can help patients negotiate the return to work/disability dilemma / Mark D. Pilley -- Working with common spine problems / James B. Talmage, and Robert H. Haralson III -- Working with common upper extremity problems / J. Mark Melhorn -- Working with common lower extremity problems / Robert H. Haralson III --
Working with common cardiopulmonary problems / Mark H. Hyman -- Working with common neurologic problems / Edwin Klimek -- Working with common rheumatologic disorders / Yvonne Smallwood Sherrer -- Working with common psychiatric problems / John D. Pro -- Working with common functional syndromes: fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome / James B. Talmage -- The Social Security Administration disability system / Edward B. Holmes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Work capacity evaluation -- United States.
Disability evaluation -- United States.
Vocational rehabilitation -- United States.
Workers' compensation -- United States.
Work -- Psychological aspects.
Convalescence -- Psychological aspects.
Rehabilitation -- psychology.
Convalescence -- psychology.
Disability Evaluation.
Employment -- psychology.
Author Talmage, James B.
Melhorn, J. Mark.
LC no. 2004028168
ISBN 1579476287 alkaline paper