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Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis
- Title
- Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis / Lisa Sanders.
- Author
- Sanders, Lisa, 1956-
- Publication
- New York : Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., [2009]
- ©2009
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC71 .S186 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxvii, 276 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness-the diagnosis-revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying--from the challenges of the physical exam to the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Popular works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Every patient's nightmare -- Every Patient Tells a Story -- The facts, and what lies beyond -- The stories they tell -- High Touch -- A vanishing art -- What only the exam can show -- Seeing is believing -- The healing touch -- The heart of the matter -- High Tech -- Testing troubles -- Limits of the Medical Mind -- Sick thinking -- Digital diagnosis -- The final diagnosis.
- ISBN
- 9780767922463
- 0767922468
- 9780767922470
- 0767922476
- 9780767931410 (canceled/invalid)
- 0767931416 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2008041478
- 9780767922463
- OCLC
- ocn257555812
- 257555812
- SCSB-9714056
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library