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Hippocrates' shadow : secrets from the house of medicine / David H. Newman.

Title
  2. Hippocrates' shadow : secrets from the house of medicine / David H. Newman.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Scribner, c2008.
Author
  1. Newman, David H., M.D.

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Description
  1. xviii, 236 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Discusses the importance of doctor-patient communication and how the focus on the benefits of technology and science undermines the risks.
Subject
  1. Communication in medicine
  2. Interpersonal communication
  3. Patient Rights
  4. Physician and patient
  5. Physician-Patient Relations
  6. Professional Misconduct
  7. Quality of Health Care
  8. Truth Disclosure
Contents
  1. Foreword: Dr. Hippocrates -- We don't know -- It doesn't work -- We don't agree -- We don't talk -- We prefer tests -- We won't unlearn (the pseudoaxioms) -- We're missing the meaning (the placebo paradox) -- You're a number (the "NNT") -- A new old paradigm.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "what doctors don't know, don't tell you, and how truth can repair the patient-doctor breach"--Jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain