The Patient

Hoyle Leigh

ISBN 10: 1468449575 / ISBN 13: 9781468449570

Edité par Springer US, Chapman And Hall/CRC Apr 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modern medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's per sonality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, phys ical examination, and 'personal profile,' together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeutic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X-rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantas magoria of contemporary laboratory tests, and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before. 488 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Patient
• Éditeur: Springer US, Chapman And Hall/CRC Apr 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1468449575
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781468449570
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 27 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 27 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 700 grammes

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The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modern medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's per- sonality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, phys- ical examination, and "personal profile," together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeutic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X-rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantas- magoria of contemporary laboratory tests, and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before.