The art of medicine : healing and the limits of technology / Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong with Michael Posner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho Ping Kong, Herbert, 1939- author.

Posner, Michael, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patient-centered health care.

Physician and patient.

Patients--Interviews.

Patients.

Physicians--Canada--Biography.

Physicians.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Legendary internist Dr Herbert Ho Ping Kong advocates a more holistic approach to patient care, including not only modern technology but also more basic skills like seeing, hearing, palpation, empathy and advocacy. In The Art Of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital's legendary internist Dr Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician, to examine the core principles of a patient-centred approach to diagnosis and treatment.

Contents:

The art of medicine

Starting out

Lessons of the Montreal years

The art of seeing

The art of listening

The art of palpation

Entering the grey zone

Further excursions in the grey zone

Thinking outside the box

Of fevers, epidemics and epidemology

Confronting rare diseases

Epilogue.

Notes:

"... examine the core principles of a patient-centred approach to diagnosis and treatment ... also contains interviews with more than a dozen of HPK's patients, as well as short essays that explore the thinking of 15 professional colleagues on the art of medicine"--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

1-77090-565-0

OCLC:

930877937