Patient Power : The Smart Patient's Guide to Health Care /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Parsons, Patricia (Patricia Houlihan)
Otros Autores: Parsons, Arthur (Arthur Hedley), 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Patient education.
Medical personnel and patient.
Medical care.
Consumer education.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Education.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Prestation de soins.
Éducation des patients.
Consommateurs > Éducation.
Soins medicaux.
Relations personnel medical-patient.
Patient Care
Professional-Patient Relations
Community Participation
Patient Education as Topic
Delivery of Health Care
Popular Work
Electronic books.
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.

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