Eric Cassell

Nature of Clinical Medicine

The Return of the Clinician

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Produktbeschreibung

The Nature of Clinical Medicine takes its direction from a catalog of goals of medicine that range from the expected diagnosis and treatment of diseases to wider concerns for patients, for physicians, and for medicine itself. Eric Cassell is specific in teaching the kinds of knowledge that clinicians require in order to be able to achieve these goals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199974863
• ISBN-10: 0199974861
• Artikelnr.: 47869382

Autorenporträt

Eric J. Cassell is an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He retired from the active practice of internal medicine in 1998 after thirty-seven years. Cassell is the author of The Healer's Art, The Place of the Humanities in Medicine, Changing Values in Medicine, two volumes on doctor-patient communication entitled Talking with Patients and Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine, and The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, now in its second edition. Cassell is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and Master of the American College of Physician.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Goals of Medicine
Chapter 2. A Story about a Patient with Aortic Stenosis
Chapter 3. What are Facts in Medicine?
Chapter 4. Clarify the Chain of Events that Led to the Present State: The Case as a Narrative
Chapter 5. The Case of Myra Manner
Chapter 6. Examine Your Presuppositions and Preconceptions
Chapter 7. Separate and Examine the Values at Issue
Chapter 8. A Question of Judgment
Chapter 9. The Patient, the Doctor, And the Relationship
Chapter 10. Observation, Prognosis, and Prognosticating
Chapter 11. Thinking in Medicine
Chapter 12. Accepting the Challenge