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Making Sense of Medicine
Bridging the Gap between Doctor Guidelines and Patient Preferences
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2016
Summary
The more we know about medicine, the more we realize that many health questions have no one true answer. Realizing this, and thinking carefully about how medicine asks patients to treat their conditions, leads us to some questions. How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’ advice? Is it wrong, after all, to base an approach to medicine on patients’ preferences? And, given that there is often a distance between the treatment a doctor advises and what a patient would like to do, how do we bridge the gap—especially in a health culture of inequality, technical proficiency, and increasing costs? In practical, engaging, narrative-driven chapters about common health conditions that millions of Americans are familiar with—depression and high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes—Dr. Zackary Berger of Johns Hopkins demystifies the often bewildering disconnect between patients and doctors and asks us all to think more clearly about how best to protect and cure the human body.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4232-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4233-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
173
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1 Chronic Pain No access Pages 11 - 22
2 Common Conditions No access Pages 23 - 32
3 Poverty No access Pages 33 - 44
4 Depression No access Pages 45 - 58
5 High Blood Pressure No access Pages 59 - 70
6 Diabetes No access Pages 71 - 82
7 Arthritis No access Pages 83 - 92
8 Surgery No access Pages 93 - 102
9 How Good Can Guidelines Be? No access Pages 103 - 114
10 Is Half of All Research Wrong? No access Pages 115 - 126
11 Avoiding False Certainty and Approaching Future Experiences No access Pages 127 - 136
12 Revisiting the Biomedical Paradigm No access Pages 137 - 148
