On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants : What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
Robert B. Taylor
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : Springer , 2014
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (264 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1: The Profession and Professionalism""; ""Science, Art, and the Profession of Medicine""; "" Professionalism and Personal Gain""; "" A Physicianâ€?s Vow""; "" The Joy of Medicine""; "" The Privilege and Power of the Physician""; "" The Essential Unit of Medical Practice""; "" Medicine as a Social Science""; "" From Aesculapius to Evidence-Based Medicine""; "" Power and the Dream of Reason""; "" Professionalism and Compassion""; "" Professionalism, Quality, and Social Benefits""; "" The Physicianâ€?s Duty and Continuity of Care"". - "" Confidence at the Operating Table"". - "" Scurvy, Citrus, and History"""" On Precise Names of Diseases""; "" The Beginning of the End of Smallpox""; "" About the Great Pox""; "" Great Outbreaks as Things of the Past""; "" Hand-Washing and Childbed Fever""; "" On Chorea, Dancing, and Genetic Screening""; "" Disease and the Destiny of Humankind""; "" Silence That Goes Beyond Words""; "" Accepting the Inevitable""; ""Chapter 5: Disease Detection and Diagnosis""; ""The Doctor as Patient and Diagnostician""; "" The Role of Patience in Diagnosis""; "" On Innovation in Diagnostic Methods"". - "" What We Learn by Just Looking"""" In Search of the Whole-Patient Diagnosis""; "" The Successful Diagnostician""; "" Seeing What Others Overlook""; "" Attending to Clues Wherever Found""; "" The Medical History as a Work of Art""; "" Common Things Occur Most Commonly""; "" The Patientâ€?s Story and the Good Medical History""; ""Chapter 6: Therapy and Healing""; ""In Praise of the Old Remedies""; "" About Being a Surgeon""; "" The Role of Natural Vitality in Healing""; "" Dogma and the Authority of the Physician""; "" About Making the Fewest Mistakes"". - ""Chapter 2: Being a Physician""""Protecting the Patient""; "" Courage in Times of Crisis""; "" About the Health of the Physician""; "" Ceasing Doctoring at the Right Time""; "" The Self-Complacency of the Young Physician""; "" The Physician as Advocate""; "" Being a Pioneer""; "" Standing Above the Common Herd""; "" Hobby-horses, Tyrants, and Mighty Purposes""; "" Service in Medicine""; "" The Compleat Physician""; "" Giving Back to the World""; "" The Intimate Chambers of Our Patientsâ€? Lives""; ""Chapter 3: The Art and Science of Doctoring"". - ""More Than Technical Skill"""" About Offering Hope""; "" Practical Medicine in Medical Practice""; "" Reconciling Uncertainty and Probability""; "" The Confidence of the Healer""; "" Disease, Man, and the World""; "" Caring for the Patient""; "" Satisfaction and Choices in Medicine""; "" Touching, Listening, and Technology""; "" Revealing the Physicianâ€?s Human Side""; ""Chapter 4: Health, Disease, Illness, and Death""; ""Disease and Its Manifestations""; "" The Movement of Blood as a Disruptive Discovery""; "" Describing the Pain of Gout"". - Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine's "giants"-such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross-are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and what did he identify as ""the real essential factor in all successful medical diagnosis""? What did Sigmund Freud describe as his "t
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| ISBN | 9781493913343
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