The challenging adolescent
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The challenging adolescent.
Adolescents are medically, developmentally and psychologically distinct from children and adults. Although we all have patients in this age group who are communicative, adherent and capable, many of us have been faced with young people who are difficult to work with, for a variety of reasons. The aim of this article is to consider which young people are most challenging to rheumatology professi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1462-0324,1462-0332
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep133