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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Oct 28;98(2):137–143. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.10.021
Example 8. P=33-year-old white male
1 D: How do we want to manage this?
2 P: I mean I'm hurtin really bad.
3 D: Okay.
4 P: It's hard to move. It's hard to do anything.
5 D: Right.
6 P: I mean it's like- it's mainly like right here.
7 D: Okay.
8 P: Uh, I don't know. I mean like I said Ibuprofen or Tylenol you know any of the
9 cheap pain relievers, ain't nothin helping nothin.
10 D: Okay. Well, I'm willing to give you another prescription here. Cuz we've got you
11 know obviously an issue with your pain. I'm gonna make a note that we've talked,
12 had this conversation and this is the last time you're going to get a prescription
13 here.