Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press ,
2009
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 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