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Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge
- Title
- Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / Robert M. Veatch.
- Author
- Veatch, Robert M.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 287 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 09-23
- ISBN
- 9780195313727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0195313720 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008003515
- OCLC
- 191751571
- Author
- Veatch, Robert M.
- Title
- Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / Robert M. Veatch.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 09-23