Hippocrates' shadow
Subtitle: secrets from the house of medicine : what doctors don't know, don't tell you, and how truth can repair the patient-doctor breach
By: David H. Newman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781416551539
Subjects: Physician and patient; Communication in medicine; Interpersonal communication; Physician-Patient Relations; Patient Rights; Professional Misconduct; Quality of Health Care; Truth Disclosure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dr. Hippocrates; title: We don't know; title: It doesn't work; title: We don't agree; title: We don't talk; title: We prefer tests; title: We won't unlearn (the pseudoaxioms); title: Meaning is missing (the placebo paradox); title: You're a number (the NNT); title: New old paradigm.