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The Nature of Clinical Medicine - The Return of the Clinician (Hardcover)
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The Nature of Clinical Medicine - The Return of the Clinician (Hardcover)
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Clinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only
with what clinicians do, but why. When physicians act in medicine
they have some purpose or goal in mind. What they actually do and
how they go about it is in the service of their purposes and their
goals. Such goals cover a wide range of topics centering on
patients, the doctor-patient relationship, the acts of doctoring
patients, and the goals involved in being a physician among other
physicians working within the institutions of medicine. 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. The chapters are specific in teaching the kinds of
knowledge that clinicians require in order to be able to achieve
these goals. The central focus of the clinician and of this book is
the patient. According to Eric Cassell, everything else, including
the disease, is secondary. Using many examples from real-life
medical practice, each chapter examines the different kinds of
thought involved in caring for the patient. Cassell takes on a
variety of difficult issues, from thinking about values to
developing wisdom. The care of the dying, what thinking itself is,
and finally, why would one want to do this exciting and rewarding
but difficult work, come under discussion in this book.
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