Research Catalog

Title

• Hippocrates' shadow : secrets from the house of medicine / David H. Newman.

Author

Newman, David H., M.D.

Publication

New York, NY : Scribner, c2008.

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Details

Description

xviii, 236 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Discusses the importance of doctor-patient communication and how the focus on the benefits of technology and science undermines the risks.

Subject

• Communication in medicine
• Interpersonal communication
• Patient Rights
• Physician and patient
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Professional Misconduct
• Quality of Health Care
• Truth Disclosure

Note

• "what doctors don't know, don't tell you, and how truth can repair the patient-doctor breach"--Jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: Dr. Hippocrates -- We don't know -- It doesn't work -- We don't agree -- We don't talk -- We prefer tests -- We won't unlearn (the pseudoaxioms) -- We're missing the meaning (the placebo paradox) -- You're a number (the "NNT") -- A new old paradigm.

ISBN

• 9781416551539 (hardcover)
• 1416551530 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2008012485

OCLC

213489629

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library