| Description |
xvii, 191 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. The Doctoring Career. 1. Choosing Medicine. 2. (Medical) School Days. 3. Residency Rituals. 4. Decisions, Decisions - Making Career Choices. 5. The Purviews of Professionalism -- Pt. 2. Patient Care: The Process. 6. Evaluating Diagnosis. 7. Treatise on Treatment. 8. A Pound of Prevention...? 9. Whither the H&P? 10. Practice Styles. 11. The Listening Skill. 12. The Humble Factor -- Pt. 3. Micro World Matters. 13. House Calls. 14. Who's in Charge Here - Doctor or Patient? 15. The Generalist/Specialist Dichotomy. 16. Records of Continuing Care. 17. Dealing With Death and Dying. 18. Ethics and Patient Care -- Pt. 4. The Big Picture. 19. Doctoring: Science or Art? 20. Elite or Egalitarian? 21. Science-'n-Technology. 22. Data and Death Certificates. 23. Hospitals - An Identity Crisis? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-188) and index |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Physician and patient.
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Medical care -- Trends
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Medicine.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
95025334 |
| ISBN |
027595448X (alk. paper) |
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