# ASSESSING THE PATIENT'S NEEDS

Department of Defense ASSESSING THE PATIENT'S NEEDS PIN 11336 1974 KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMPLETE MEDICAL HISTORY OF EACH PATIENT PRIOR TO HIS HOSPITALIZATION OR TREATMENT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PATIENT. THIS FILM IS ABOUT ASSISTING THE PATIENT TO ACCEPT HIS ILLNESS, TO TREAT HIMSELF AS PRESCRIBED, AND TO RETURN TO AS CLOSE TO A NORMAL LIFE STYLE AS POSSIBLE.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1974
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.11336)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.