The midnight meal and other essays about doctors, patients, and medicine /

With wisdom and compassion, Dr. Jerome Lowenstein tells stories about relationships between medical students and their teachers, physicians and their colleagues, and physicians and their patients. He reflects on what doctors learn from treating chronic illness; how they respond to patients' nee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lowenstein, Jerome
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Temas:
Physician and patient.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Physicians > Attitudes.
Interpersonal relations.
Interprofessional relations.
Physician-Patient Relations
Interprofessional Relations
Philosophy, Medical
Relations médecin-patient.
Médecine > Philosophie.
Médecins > Attitudes.
Relations interprofessionnelles.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Interprofessional relations
Interpersonal relations
Medicine > Philosophy
Physician and patient
Physicians > Attitudes
Essay
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The midnight meal
  • The biomolecular revolution
  • Can you teach compassion?
  • Coughs, clouds, and ice
  • Treating chronic illness
  • Patients as teachers
  • Reassurance and the warning on the label
  • Defending the common cold
  • Asymmetry
  • On drawing blood
  • The vital signs
  • The dummy and the standardized patient
  • Holding the blood gas report
  • The narrative instinct
  • The whole truth ...?
  • Aids
  • A marriage without divorce
  • Shaky evidence
  • A critical incident
  • The homeless man on morning rounds
  • Numbers, numbers
  • Alternative medicine
  • Bellevue Hospital.

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