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The doctor in literature : satisfaction or resentment? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Posen, Solomon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Seattle : Radcliffe, [2005]
Subjects:
Physicians.
Medicine in Literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The physician's fee
  • Time
  • The bedside manner
  • The history and physical examination; investigations; the diagnosis
  • Explanations; the medium and the message; the truth
  • Treatment : successes and failures
  • The 'correct' degree of detachment
  • 'It's all a cruel hoax'
  • The ward round
  • The physicians' social status
  • The physician in court