Patient, heal thyself
Subtitle: how the "new medicine" puts the patient in charge
By: Robert M. Veatch.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780195313727
Subjects: Medicine -- Decision making; Medical ethics; Medical care -- United States; Patient Participation -- trends; Delivery of Health Care -- trends; Personal Autonomy; Philosophy, Medical; Physician-Patient Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The puzzling case of the broken arm; title: The hernias, diets, and drugs; title: Doctor doesn't know best: why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients; title: Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights; title: Sacrificing a patient: societal interests and duties to others; title: The new, limited twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants; title: Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctors "orders" and hospital "discharge"; title: Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way?; title: Medical necessity and treatments of choice: who's is fooling whom?; title: Abandoning informed consent; title: Why physicians get it wrong and the alternatives to consent: patient choice and deep value pairing; title: The end of prescribing: why prescription writing is irrational; title: The alternatives to prescribing; title: Are fat people overweight?; title: Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat; title: Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal; title: Health insurance: the case for multiple lists; title: Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care: The history of the hospice; title: Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care: Hospice in a postmodern era; title: Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma; title: Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine; title: Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong; title: Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact; title: The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often.