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Educating Doctors - Crisis in Medical Education, Research and Practice (Paperback)
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At a time when medical care for the people of the United States is
undergoing wrenching change due mainly to vast and costly
technological progress, doctors have had to cede much of their
initiative and responsibility to third parties. Medicine has become
a commercial enterprise. Patients must affiliate themselves with a
managed health care organization in order to have access to their
doctors. In the hurly-burly of today's techno-medicine, many
physicians are too busy to spend time in dialogue with their
patients. As a consequence, social and emotional circumstances that
have been thoroughly documented to affect physiology and
susceptibility to disease are overlooked. Stewart Wolf here
critiques the medical establishment and the way those concerned
with its various responsibilities discharge them. He puts
medicine's responsibilities to society into historical perspective,
relating it to social changes. He begins with the ways medical
candidates are selected. He continues with commentary on currently
designed teaching and learning, the qualities required in a
physician and in a medical scientist, and the nature and challenges
of disease and what can be done about them. Finally, Wolf provides
a useful way of thinking about human biology, to better understand
why people become sick or well and what people have to contend with
to stay well. Throughout he emphasizes the role of the brain in
controlling behavior of all sorts, general and visceral. Wolf
emphasizes the regulatory power of the nervous system as it
perceives and evaluates life experiences and influences learning,
behavior, and susceptibility to disease. Wolf'sgoal is not to
supply a recipe for the achievement of better health, but to
encourage a better understanding of ourselves and the paths toward
health. Educating Doctors reexamines the responsibilities, goals,
and activities of the medical establishment. As such it is a must
read for policymakers, sociologists, and professionals working in
the medical field.
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