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Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / Robert M. Veatch.
Holman Biotech Commons R723.5 .V43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Veatch, Robert M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Decision making.
- Medicine.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- United States.
- Patient Participation--trends.
- Delivery of Health Care--trends.
- Personal Autonomy.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Patient Participation--trends.
- Delivery of Health Care--trends.
- Personal Autonomy.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195313727
- 0195313720
- OCLC:
- 191751571
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