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English
Pages
287

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Patient, heal thyself: how the "new medicine" puts the patient in charge
2008, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

The puzzling case of the broken arm
The hernias, diets, and drugs
Doctor doesn't know best: why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients
Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights
Sacrificing a patient: societal interests and duties to others
The new, limited twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants
Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctors "orders" and hospital "discharge"
Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way?
Medical necessity and treatments of choice: who's 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: The history of the hospice
Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care: 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610
Library of Congress
R723.5 .V43 2008, R723.5.V43 2008, R723.5 .V43 2009

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Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
287

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Open Library
OL16474752M
ISBN 13
9780195313727
LCCN
2008003515
OCLC/WorldCat
191751571
Library Thing
6219186
Goodreads
6142888

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