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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807857203321

Autore

Kong Herbert Ho Ping

Titolo

The art of medicine : healing and the limits of technology / / Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong with Michael Posner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario : , : ECW Press, , [2014]

©2014

Ottawa, Ontario : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2015

ISBN

1-77090-565-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

610.69/5

Soggetti

Patient-centered health care

Physician and patient

Patients

Physicians - Canada

Soins centrés sur le patient

Relations médecin-patient

Médecins - Canada

Libros electronicos.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"... examine the core principles of a patient-centred approach to diagnosis and treatment ... also contains interviews with more than a dozen of HPK's patients, as well as short essays that explore the thinking of 15 professional colleagues on the art of medicine"--Dust jacket.

Nota di contenuto

The art of medicine -- Starting out -- Lessons of the Montreal years -- The art of seeing -- The art of listening -- The art of palpation -- Entering the grey zone -- Further excursions in the grey zone -- Thinking outside the box -- Of fevers, epidemics and epidemology -- Confronting rare diseases -- Epilogue.