| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Parts and money -- Seeing wisely -- Occult findings -- The book and the coat -- Full responsibility -- Duty hours -- Efficient and effective -- Checklists and dance lessons -- Famous factory meatloaf -- Sickbeds and garden beds -- Committed -- Impatient attending -- Muscle ups -- Doctors without silver -- Red cards -- Witnesses -- Hope -- Epilogue: Luster |
| Summary |
Annotation Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing psychiatrist who explains how population-based reforms have diminished the relationship between doctors and patients, to the detriment of both. As an antidote to failed reforms and an alternative to stubbornly held traditions, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum suggests ways that doctors and patients can learn what it means to be ill and to seek medical assistance. Using a variety of riveting stories from his own and others' experiences, the author develops a series of metaphors to explore a doctor's role in different healthcare reform scenarios: scientist, technician, author, gardener, teacher, servant, and witness. Each role influences what a physician sees when examining a person as a patient. Dr. Nussbaum cautions that true healthcare reform can happen only when those who practice medicine can see, and be seen by, their patients as fellow creatures. His memoir makes a hopeful appeal for change, and his insights reveal the direction that change must take |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nussbaum, Abraham M., 1975-
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| SUBJECT |
Nussbaum, Abraham M., 1975- |
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Physician and patient.
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Physicians -- Medicine
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Health care reform -- United States
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Physicians.
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Health care reform.
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Physician-Patient Relations
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Physicians
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Health Care Reform
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physicians.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Atlases.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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Health care reform
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Physicians
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Physician and patient
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300220919 |
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030022091X |
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