title: Primary care of the adolescent patient.
abstract: When examining an adolescent, clinicians should look beyond the presenting complaint and ask questions designed to illuminate such problems as social and emotional adjustment, nutrition, sexual health, smoking, and possible use of mood-altering substances. In addition, a number of adult chronic diseases that make their first appearance in the second decade of life should be diagnosed.
authors.affiliation: University Health Services, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Faigel
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D000092864:Suicide Prevention