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Berger, Zackary, 1973-
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Physician and patient.
Communication in medicine.
Patient participation.
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Berger, Zackary, 1973-
Physician and patient.
Communication in medicine.
Patient participation.
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Making sense of medicine : bridging the gap between doctor guidelines and patient preferences / Zackary Berger.
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Berger, Zackary, 1973-
Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Call #:
610
.696
B496m
Subjects
Physician and patient.
Communication in medicine.
Patient participation.
ISBN:
9781442242326 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Medicine : bridging the gap between doctor guidelines and patient preferences
Description:
vii, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.
Contents:
Chronic pain : many treatments, no solution -- Common conditions : the gap between knowledge and preference -- Poverty : making decisions, our health system- and you in the middle -- Depression : medications? Therapy? None of the above? -- High blood pressure : where is the limit? -- Diabetes : sailing on the uncertain A1C -- Arthritis : what's bred in the bone -- Surgery : to be operated on or not- and with whom? -- How good can guidelines be? -- Is half of all research wrong? -- Avoiding false certainty and approaching future experiences -- Revisiting the biomedical paradigm.
Summary:
The more we know about medicine, the more we realize that many health questions have no one true answer. How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors' advice? Is it wrong, after all, to base an approach to medicine on patients' preferences? And, given that there is often a distance between the treatment a doctor advises and what a patient would like to do, how do we bridge the gap - especially in a health culture of inequality, technical proficiency, and increasing costs? In chapters about common health conditions - depression and high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes - Dr. Zackary Berger of Johns Hopkins demystifies the often bewildering disconnect between patients and doctors and asks us all to think more clearly about how best to protect and cure the human body. Zachary Berger is the author of Talking to Your Doctor: a Patient's Guide.
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