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Author Meador, Clifton K., 1931-

Title Symptoms of unknown origin : a medical odyssey / Clifton K. Meador
Edition First edition
Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005

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Description xv, 175 pages ; 23 cm
Contents An unlikely lesson from a medical desert -- Texas heat -- Dr. Drayton Doherty and Miss Cootsie -- All some patients need is listening and talking -- Diagnoses without diseases -- The woman who believed she was a man -- Mind and body -- Sweet Thing -- New clinical interventions -- Florence's symptoms -- Symptoms without disease -- Looking back on Fairhope -- The diarrhea of Agnes -- Dr. Jim's breasts -- The woman who would not talk -- The woman who could not tell her husband anything -- Staying out of God's way -- A paradoxical approach -- You can't be everybody's doctor -- In tune with the patient
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Clinical medicine -- Case studies.
Diagnostic errors.
Medical misconceptions.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Clinical Medicine.
Diagnostic Errors.
Philosophy, Medical.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Case studies.
Anecdotes.
LC no. 2004028858
ISBN 0826514731 cloth alkaline paper
082651474X paperback alkaline paper