Making sense of medicine
Subtitle: bridging the gap between doctor guidelines and patient preferences
By: Zackary Berger
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781442242326
Subjects: Physician and patient; Communication in medicine; Patient participation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages163-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Deciding for yourself; title: Chronic pain: many treatments, no solution; title: Common conditions: the gap between knowledge and preference; title: Poverty: making decisions, our health system - and you in the middle; title: Depression: Medications? Therapy? None of the above?; title: High blood pressure: where is the limit?; title: Diabetes: sailing the uncertain A1C; title: Arthritis: what's bred in the bone; title: Surgery: to be operated on or not - and with whom?; title: How good can guidelines be?; title: Is half of all research wrong?; title: Avoiding false certainty and approaching future experiences; title: Revisiting the biomedical paradigm.