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Doctoring : the nature of primary care medicine /
American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much mor...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting conquest of disease, has evolved into an overly expensive, over technologized, uncaring medicine, poorly suited to the health care needs of a society marked by an aging population and a predominance of chr. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 1997. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198027294 019802729X 9781282384361 1282384368 |