Doctoring : the nature of primary care medicine / Eric J. Cassell.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cassell, Eric J., 1928-2021
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Is Primary Care?; 2. The Heavy Hand of the Past: Thinking About Diseases Versus Thinking About Persons; 3. The Special Problem of Technology; 4. The Clinical Method; 5. The Clinical Method and the Patient; 6. Where Should Primary Care Be Taught-and by Whom?; 7. What Should Be Taught?; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.