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Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis
- Author(s):
- Sanders, Lisa, 1956-
- Title(s):
- Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis / Lisa Sanders.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Publisher:
- New York : Broadway Books, c2009.
- Description:
- xxvii, 276 p. ; 25 cm.
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Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 9780767922463
0767922468
- LCCN:
- 2008041478
- Summary:
- Presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness-the diagnosis-revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying--from the challenges of the physical exam to the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors.
- MeSH:
- Diagnosis, Differential*
Diagnostic Errors*
- Publication Type(s):
- Popular Work
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents:
- Every patient's nightmare -- Every Patient Tells a Story -- The facts, and what lies beyond -- The stories they tell -- High Touch -- A vanishing art -- What only the exam can show -- Seeing is believing -- The healing touch -- The heart of the matter -- High Tech -- Testing troubles -- Limits of the Medical Mind -- Sick thinking -- Digital diagnosis -- The final diagnosis.
- Other ID:
- (OCoLC)257555812
- NLM ID:
- 101537325 [Book]