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    Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / Robert M. Veatch.

    • Title:Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / Robert M. Veatch.
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    • Author/Creator:Veatch, Robert M.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Decision making.
      Medical ethics.
      Medical care--United States.
    • Medical Subjects: Patient Participation--trends.
      Delivery of Health Care--trends.
      Personal Autonomy.
      Philosophy, Medical.
      Physician-Patient Relations.
    • Description:xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780195313727 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0195313720 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • Contents:New Medicine: An Introduction
      Pt. I. Why Doctor Does Not Know Best
      1. Puzzling Case of the Broken Arm
      2. Hernias, Diets, and Drugs
      3. Why Physicians Cannot Know What Will Benefit Patients
      4. Sacrificing Patient Benefit to Protect Patient Rights
      5. Societal Interests and Duties to Others
      6. New, Limited, Twenty-First-Century Role for Physicians as Patient Assistants
      7. Abandoning Modern Medical Concepts: Doctor's "Orders" and Hospital "Discharge"
      8. Medicine Can't "Indicate": So Why Do We Talk That Way?
      9. "Treatments of Choice" and "Medical Necessity": Who Is Fooling Whom?
      Pt. II. New Concepts for the New Medicine
      10. Abandoning Informed Consent
      11. Why Physicians Get It Wrong and the Alternatives to Consent: Patient Choice and Deep Value Pairing
      12. End of Prescribing: Why Prescription Writing Is Irrational
      13. Alternatives to Prescribing
      14. Are Fat People Overweight?
      15. Beyond Prettiness: Death, Disease, and Being Pat
      16. Universal but Varied Health Insurance: Only Separate Is Equal
      17. Health Insurance: The Case for Multiple Lists
      18. Why Hospice Care Should Not Be a Part of Ideal Health Care: I. The History of the Hospice
      19. Why Hospice Care Should Not Be a Part of Ideal Health Care: II. Hospice in a Postmodern Era
      Pt. III. New Medicine and the New Medical Science
      20. Randomized Human Experimentation: The Modern Dilemma
      21. Randomized Human Experimentation: A Proposal for the New Medicine
      22. Clinical Practice Guidelines and Why They Are Wrong
      23. Outcomes Research and How Values Sneak into Finding of Fact
      24. Consensus of Medical Experts and Why It Is Wrong So Often
      Epilogue: A Patient Manifesto.
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