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Patient, Heal Thyself: How the New Medicine Puts the Patient in Charge

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Patient, Heal Thyself: How the New Medicine Puts the Patient in Charge - Veatch, Robert
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Robert Veatch, one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics, sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping through the American health care system, a change that puts the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented extent. The change is in how we think about medical decision-making. Whereas medicine's core idea was that medical decisions should be based on the hard facts of science--the province of the doctor--the "new medicine" contends that medical decisions impose value judgments. Since physicians are not ...

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Patient, Heal Thyself: How the New Medicine Puts the Patient in Charge 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195313727

Hardcover