Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis
2009
Book
Presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness-the diagnosis-revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying--from the challenges of the physical exam to the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780767922463
- 0767922468
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxvii, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Every patient's nightmare
- Every Patient Tells a Story
- The facts, and what lies beyond
- The stories they tell
- High Touch
- A vanishing art
- What only the exam can show
- Seeing is believing
- The healing touch
- The heart of the matter
- High Tech
- Testing troubles
- Limits of the Medical Mind
- Sick thinking
- Digital diagnosis
- The final diagnosis.
LCCN: 2008041478
Control Number: 710342
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2009]Subjects: