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Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge /

Robert Veatch, one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics, sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping through the American health care system, a change that puts the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented extent. The change is in how we think about medical decision-making. W...

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Основен автор: Veatch, Robert M.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Предмети:
Medicine > Decision making.
Medical ethics.
Medical care > United States.
Patient Participation > trends.
Delivery of Health Care > trends.
Personal Autonomy.
Philosophy, Medical.
Physician-Patient Relations.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Medical.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
MEDICAL CARE.
United States > .
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Patient, heal thyself.
Съдържание:
  • The puzzling case of the broken arm
  • Hernias, diets, and drugs
  • Why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients
  • Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights
  • Societal interests and duties to others
  • The new, limited, twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants
  • Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctor's "orders" and hospital "discharge"
  • Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way?
  • "Treatments of choice" and "medical necessity": who 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 I: the history of the hospice
  • Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: 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.

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