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The midnight meal and other essays about doctors, patients, and medicine /

With wisdom and compassion, Dr. Jerome Lowenstein tells stories about relationships between medical students and their teachers, physicians and their colleagues, and physicians and their patients. He reflects on what doctors learn from treating chronic illness; how they respond to patients' nee...

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Основен автор: Lowenstein, Jerome.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New Haven : Yale University Press, ℗♭1997.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=53000
Подобни документи: Print version:: Midnight meal and other essays about doctors, patients, and medicine.
Съдържание:
  • The midnight meal
  • The biomolecular revolution
  • Can you teach compassion?
  • Coughs, clouds, and ice
  • Treating chronic illness
  • Patients as teachers
  • Reassurance and the warning on the label
  • Defending the common cold
  • Asymmetry
  • On drawing blood
  • The vital signs
  • The dummy and the standardized patient
  • Holding the blood gas report
  • The narrative instinct
  • The whole truth ...?
  • Aids
  • A marriage without divorce
  • Shaky evidence
  • A critical incident
  • The homeless man on morning rounds
  • Numbers, numbers
  • Alternative medicine
  • Bellevue Hospital.