General Practitioner Essay

A general practitioner who must work with an asthma patient, must be able to communicate and work together with other medical professionals to diagnose and treat the patient. For patients who don’t have a clinical obvious etiology, a bronchial provocation test should be used, as is the case with this patient. According to Rand, et. al. (2015) in cases where it is thought that asthma is the diagnosis, a bronchoscopy should be undertaken, something that may be accurate in this case given the history the patient has of the cough getting progressively worse in various settings. High resolution computed tomography can be used to then review more targeted investigations for the problem area. The optimal management for this case should be a combination of treatment trails as well as diagnostic testing. The trials should be based on the most likely aggravant or aggravants. The treatment effects should then be formally quantified.General Practitioner Essay