Symptoms of unknown origin : a medical odyssey /

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A doctor's fascinating encounters with "nondisease" and how physicians can recognize and treat patients with symptoms that might at first appear imaginary.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Meador, Clifton K., 1931-2021
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Clinical medicine > Case studies.
Diagnostic errors.
Medical misconceptions.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Clinical medicine.
Physician and patient.
Clinical Medicine
Diagnostic Errors
Philosophy, Medical
Physician-Patient Relations
Médecine clinique > Études de cas.
Erreurs de diagnostic.
Superstitions et médecine.
Médecine > Philosophie.
Médecine clinique.
Relations médecin-patient.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
Physician and patient
Clinical medicine
Diagnostic errors
Medical misconceptions
Medicine > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Anecdotes
Case studies
Anecdotes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An unlikely lesson from a medical desert
  • Texas heat
  • Dr. Drayton Doherty and Miss Cootsie
  • All some patients need is listening and talking
  • Diagnoses without diseases
  • The woman who believed she was a man
  • Mind and body
  • Sweet Thing
  • New clinical interventions
  • Florence's symptoms
  • Symptoms without disease
  • Looking back on Fairhope
  • The diarrhea of Agnes
  • Dr. Jim's breasts
  • The woman who would not talk
  • The woman who could not tell her husband anything
  • Staying out of God's way
  • A paradoxical approach
  • You can't be everybody's doctor
  • In tune with the patient.

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