The Patient - Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)

The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modem medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's personality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, physical examination, and "per sonal profile," together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeu tic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantasmagoria of contemporary laboratory tests; and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	1980
Authors:	Hoyle Leigh
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	351
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
ISBN-13:	978-1-4684-3529-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
LSN:	1-4684-3529-9
Barcode:	9781468435290

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