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When doctors don't listen : how to avoid misdiagnoses and unnecessary tests
- Title
- When doctors don't listen : how to avoid misdiagnoses and unnecessary tests / Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky.
- Author
- Wen, Leana S.
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | R727.3 .W42 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kosowsky, Joshua M.
- Description
- xiv, 334 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Discusses how to avoid harmful medical mistakes, offering advice on such topics as working with a busy doctor, communicating the full story of an illness, evaluating test risks, and obtaining a working diagnosis.
- Alternative Title
- When doctors do not listen
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- How we got here. From shamans to black boxes ; Do as I say, do as I do -- Cookbook medicine : live from the ER. The car mechanic with the pulled muscle ; The mother of two who had trouble breathing ; The college student with a bad headache ; The woman who fainted at the sight of a sandwich -- The building blocks to avoid misdiagnosis. A crash course on diagnosis ; Begin at the beginning ; What's the story? ; What does the story mean? ; Help me help you ; It's just common sense -- How to get to the right diagnosis. The 8 pillars to better diagnosis ; Prescriptions for patients ; Cookbook outcomes, revisited -- Prescription for reform. Diagnosis, multiplied ; Countering the skeptics -- Appendix 1. Prescriptions for healthcare providers -- Appendix 2. 21 exercises toward better diagnosis -- Appendix 3. Worksheets toward your diagnosis -- Appendix 4. 911 glossary of key terms.
- ISBN
- 9780312594916 (hbk.)
- 0312594917 (hbk.)
- 9781250013576 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- 1250013577 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012037819
- OCLC
- ocn817736505
- 817736505
- SCSB-8854471
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries