Patient-centered medicine : a human experience /
Patient-Centered Medicine: A Human Experience emphasizes the health professional's role in caring for patients as unique individuals by focusing on the patients' psychological and social realities as well as their biological needs. The book concerns itself with caring for the whole patient...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Patient-Centered Medicine: A Human Experience emphasizes the health professional's role in caring for patients as unique individuals by focusing on the patients' psychological and social realities as well as their biological needs. The book concerns itself with caring for the whole patient,and outlines the basic principles involved in developing a biopsychosocial approach to medical practice. This is a volume of guidelines that will help medical students and clinicians develop and master basic attitudes and skills essential to providing empathic and comprehensive medical care. AsNorman Cousins writes in the foreword, "The authors understand and repeatedly demonstrate in this book, that the patient-physician relationship is a powerful, sometimes mysterious, frequently healing interaction between human beings. It is the person of the doctor and the presence of the doctor -just as much and frequently more than - what the doctor does that creates an environment for healing. The physician represents restoration. The physician holds the lifeline." |
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| Item Description: | Based on Medicine as a human experience / David E. Reiser, David H. Rosen. c1984. The Cushing Library/Texas A&M Collection copy is inscribed by David Rosen. |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190628871 0190628871 |