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The Resource Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge, Robert M. Veatch

Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge, Robert M. Veatch

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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 trained to make value judgments, the pendulum has swung greatly toward the patient in making decisions about their treatment. Veatch shows how this has been true only for value-loaded interventions (abortion, euthanasia, genetics) but is coming to be true for almost every routine procedure in medicine, and uses a range of examples to argue that this change is inevitable and a positive trend for patients.--From publisher description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages)
Contents
  • 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
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9780199718351
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Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge
Title
Patient, heal thyself
Title remainder
how the new medicine puts the patient in charge
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Robert M. Veatch
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Language
eng
Summary
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 trained to make value judgments, the pendulum has swung greatly toward the patient in making decisions about their treatment. Veatch shows how this has been true only for value-loaded interventions (abortion, euthanasia, genetics) but is coming to be true for almost every routine procedure in medicine, and uses a range of examples to argue that this change is inevitable and a positive trend for patients.--From publisher description
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Veatch, Robert M
Dewey number
610
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
R723.5
LC item number
.V43 2009eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2008 M-522
  • W 85
NLM item number
V394p 2009
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Medicine
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical care
  • Patient Participation
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Philosophy, Medical
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • HEALTH & FITNESS
  • MEDICAL
  • MEDICAL
  • HEALTH & FITNESS
  • Medical care
  • Medical ethics
  • Medicine
  • United States
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Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge, Robert M. Veatch
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Publication
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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Contents
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
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607554825
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages)
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unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780199718351
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computer
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rdamedia
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illustrations
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Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)607554825
Label
Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge, Robert M. Veatch
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
607554825
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780199718351
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
254406
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
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unknown
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)607554825

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