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1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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The emergence of the rush community service initiatives program -- Clinics serving the poor and homeless -- The new faces of AIDS -- Community-based grassroots programs -- The community today, tomorrow the world -- Looking for meaning -- Empirical estimates of patients and clients served -- The learning and development of the students -- Nurturing idealism, advancing humanism, and planning reform -- A personal reflection: the staying power of the call of service |
| Summary |
Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human form as a set of separate organs and systems in some stage of disease. Missing from their training is a holistic portrait of the patient as a person and as a member of a community. Yet a humanistic passion and desire to help people often are the attributes that compel a student toward a career in medicine. So what happens along the way to tarnish that idealism? Can a new approach to medical education make a differenc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Community health services -- United States
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Student volunteers in medical care -- United States
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Medical students.
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Community Health Services
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Community Networks
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Social Responsibility
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Students, Medical
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
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MEDICAL -- General.
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Medical students
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Community health services
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Student volunteers in medical care
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Medizinstudent
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Gesundheitsfürsorge
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Services communautaires de santé -- Cas, Études de -- États-Unis.
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Médecine -- Étude et enseignement -- États-Unis.
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United States |
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813545097 |
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0813545099 |
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9786611776404 |
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6611776400 |
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