Patient power : the smart patient's guide to health care /
"Patient Power is uniquely designed to put a human face on the best and worst aspects of health care; your guide to how the whole system works; the knowledge equalizer in a lopsided relationship with a doctor; the low-down on who does what, what they do and shouldn't do, and what happens t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Once upon a time ...
- The people
- The 'good' patient
- Who's on first? Doctors?
- Angels of mercy? The nurses
- Hands off! Those technical people
- Hands on! Some others
- The alternatives
- The process
- Medical buzztalk
- Tests, tests, and more tests
- Drugs
- keeping the lid on
- High tech reality
- Operation necessary?
- Second and other opinions
- Your medical and physical : past and present
- The results
- Doctors' dilemmas
- Inefficiency and overuse : a system in distress
- Demedicalizing social problems
- The 'smart' death.