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Adapting Your Practice: General Recommendations for the Care of Homeless Patients by Edward Bonin, Theresa Brehove, Susan Kline, Mike Misgen, Aaron J. Strehlow, and Jeffrey Yungman and edited by Pat Post. Nashville, TN: Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network, National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc., 2004. 44 pp.
This concise, clinically informative manual, developed by an advisory committee of six health and social service providers affiliated with the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians Network, outlines general recommendations for adapting medical practices to the unique needs of homeless persons. Targeted to the audience of health care professionals, trainees, and ancillary personnel who may have little clinical experience working with the homeless, this compact guide offers basic, common-sense approaches to providing medical care to a highly vulnerable and medically underserved population.
In less than 50 pages, the authors attempt to outline the fundamental issues affecting...