03238nam 22006014a 450 991045649990332120200520144314.01-282-54406-397866125440640-19-971835-0(CKB)2550000000010654(OCoLC)607554825(CaPaEBR)ebrary10375290(SSID)ssj0000424947(PQKBManifestationID)11249493(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424947(PQKBWorkID)10475317(PQKB)11060744(MiAaPQ)EBC2012704(Au-PeEL)EBL2012704(CaPaEBR)ebr10375290(CaONFJC)MIL254406(OCoLC)923712584(EXLCZ)99255000000001065420080124d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPatient, heal thyself[electronic resource] how the new medicine puts the patient in charge /Robert M. VeatchOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (304 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-531372-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.The puzzling case of the broken arm -- Hernias, diets, and drugs -- Why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients -- Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights -- Societal interests and duties to others -- The new, limited, twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants -- Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctor's "orders" and hospital "discharge" -- Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way? --"Treatments of choice" and "medical necessity": who is fooling whom? -- Abandoning informed consent -- Why physicians get it wrong and the alternatives to consent: patient choice and deep value pairing -- The end of prescribing: why prescription writing is irrational -- The alternatives to prescribing -- Are fat people overweight? -- Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat -- Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal -- Health insurance: the case for multiple lists -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care I: the history of the hospice -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: hospice in a postmodern era -- Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma -- Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine -- Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong -- Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact -- The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often.MedicineDecision makingMedical ethicsMedical careUnited StatesElectronic books.MedicineDecision making.Medical ethics.Medical care610Veatch Robert M788313MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456499903321Patient, heal thyself2009918UNINA