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Author Veatch, Robert M.

Title Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / Robert M. Veatch.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  610 V48    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  610 VEATCH    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-275) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Medicine -- Decision making.
Medical ethics.
Medical care -- United States.
Patient Participation -- trends.
Delivery of Health Care -- trends.
Philosophy, Medical.
Physician-Patient Relations.
ISBN 9780195313727 alkaline paper
0195313720 alkaline paper
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