Master Clinician and Public Health Practitioner: Selected Occupational and Environmental Pulmonary Cases
Efia James1, Brian Linde1, Carrie A Redlich1
1Department of Medicine, Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale School of Medicine, 367 Cedar Street, ESHA 2nd Floor, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Abstract:
Occupational and environmental exposures contribute to the development and progression of most lung diseases, yet their impact is greatly under-recognized in clinical practice. Clinicians caring for patients with respiratory diseases should maintain a high index of suspicion for occupational and environmental contributing factors. Mastering occupational and environmental medicine clinical decision making requires specialized clinical skills. These skills include obtaining an appropriate work and exposure history; making an assessment of the magnitude and relevance of exposures and their contribution to a patient's respiratory disease; utilizing appropriate resources for evaluation and management of exposure-related disease; and considering socioeconomic and public health factors.
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