Never Before Has Medicine Had The Capacity To Do So Much Good, Yet Never Have People Been So Disenchanted With Their Doctors. The Problem Is That Doctors Have Lost The Art Of Healing, Which Involves Much More Than Diagnostic Skills And The Ability To Mobilize Technology. At Its Core Is The Doctor-patient Relationship, And In This Provocative Book One Of Our Most Distinguished Physicians Draws On Forty Years Of Experience To Show How Vitally Important That Relationship. Is. Dr. Lown Offers A New Paradigm: Medicine With A Human Face, In Which The Art Of Healing Is Just As Important As The Mastery Of Medical Techniques. This Approach Can Cure As Many Ills As All The Wonders Of Modern Technology, And It Can Contain Costs More Readily Than Any Health Care Reform Plan. 1. The Science Of History-taking And The Art Of Listening -- 2. Listening Through Touching -- 3. Mind And Heart -- 4. Munchausen's Syndrome -- 5. Words That Maim -- 6. Words That Heal -- 7. Hearts Of Darkness, Words Of Light -- 8. The Power Of Certainty -- 9. Extraordinary Healing Techniques -- 10. Malpractice Corrupts Healing -- 11. Digitalis: The Price Of Invention -- 12. A New Medical Tradition -- 13. The Shock That Cures: Dc And Cardioversion -- 14. The Coronary Care Unit -- 15. The Ventricular Extrasystole: Heartthrob Or Harbinger? -- 16. Caring For The Elderly: Problems And Challenges -- 17. Death And Dying -- 18. A Modern Hasidic Tale -- 19. Getting Doctors To Listen. Bernard Lown. Includes Bibliographical References.
Categories:
- Medical Books
- Medicine
- Doctor-Patient Relations
- Medicine
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author : Lown, Bernard, M.d.
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :1996-09-30
Number Of Pages : 332
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0395825253
ISBN-13 : 9780395825259
Item weight : 1.1 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 5.8 in x 8 in
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