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

by Robert M. Veatch

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Robert Veatch is one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics. In Patient, Heal Thyself, he 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195313720

ISBN13:9780195313727

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy Clinical Doctor-Patient Relations Ethics Health Health Care Delivery Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Medical

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