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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veatch, Robert M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2009
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Online Access:Table of contents only

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245 1 0 |a Patient, heal thyself :   |b how the new medicine puts the patient in charge   |c Robert M. Veatch 
260 |a Oxford ;   |a New York :   |b Oxford University Press ,   |c 2009 
300 |a xvi, 287 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index 
505 0 |a 1. The puzzling case of the broken arm -- 2. Hernias, diets, and drugs -- 3. Why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients -- 4. Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights -- 5. Societal interests and duties to others -- 6. The new, limited, twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants -- 7. Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctor?s "orders" and hospital "discharge" -- 8. Medicine can?t "indicate": so why do we talk that way? -- 9. "Treatments of choice" and "medical necessity": who is fooling whom? -- 10. Abandoning informed consent -- 11. Why physicians get it wrong and the alternatives to consent: patient choice and deep value pairing -- 12. The end of prescribing: why prescription writing is irrational -- 13. The alternatives to prescribing -- 14. Are fat people overweight? -- 15. Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat -- 16. Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal -- 17. Health insurance: the case for multiple lists -- 18. Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care I: the history of the hospice -- 19. Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: hospice in a postmodern era -- 20. Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma -- 21. Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine -- 22. Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong -- 23. Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact -- 24. The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often 
650 0 |a Medical care   |z United States 
650 0 |a Medical ethics 
650 0 |a Medicine   |x Decision making 
650 1 2 |a Patient Participation   |x trends 
650 2 2 |a Delivery of Health Care   |x Trends 
650 2 2 |a Personal Autonomy 
650 2 2 |a Philosophy, Medical 
650 2 2 |a Physician-Patient Relations 
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