Patient, heal thyself how the new medicine puts the patient in charge
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- ISBN: 9780199718351 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0199718350 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780195313727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0195313720 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (xvi, 287 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.10.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The puzzling case of the broken arm -- Hernias, diets, and drugs -- Why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients -- Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights -- Societal interests and duties to others -- The new, limited, twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants -- Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctor's "orders" and hospital "discharge" -- Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way? --"Treatments of choice" and "medical necessity": who is fooling whom? -- Abandoning informed consent -- Why physicians get it wrong and the alternatives to consent: patient choice and deep value pairing -- The end of prescribing: why prescription writing is irrational -- The alternatives to prescribing -- Are fat people overweight? -- Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat -- Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal -- Health insurance: the case for multiple lists -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care I: the history of the hospice -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: hospice in a postmodern era -- Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma -- Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine -- Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong -- Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact -- The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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