Technology and the doctor-patient relationship /

"Medicine is an ancient profession that advances as each generation of practitioners passes it down to the next. It remains a distinguished, flawed and rewarding vocation-but it may be coming to an end as we know it. Computer algorithms promise patients better access, safer therapies and more p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lozar, D. C., 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Moore, Elaine A., 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Series:McFarland health topics.
Subjects:
Physician and patient.
Medical technology.
Communication in medicine.
Biomedical engineering.
Physician-Patient Relations
Biomedical Technology
Health Communication
Medical Laboratory Science
Relations médecin-patient.
Technologie médicale.
Communication en médecine.
Génie biomédical.
biomedical engineering.
Technology & Engineering / Biomedical.
Biomedical engineering
Communication in medicine
Medical technology
Physician and patient
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Buck Rogers medicine (utopia)
  • George Orwell medicine (dystopia)
  • Frontier medicine (Old School)
  • Beam me up, Scotty (telemedicine)
  • The healing touch (origin story)
  • Go gently into that good night (death)
  • Lawyers, doctors and lobbyists, oh my (mala praxis)
  • Medicine is dirty (don't bring it home)
  • It's the money, stupid (terminal economics)
  • We're only human (that's the point)
  • The librarians (custodians of health)
  • The altered mind of a physician (evolution?)
  • We are not alone (it's called a planet)
  • The brave new world (is here)
  • Doctor tomorrow (what's next?).

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