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The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modern medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's per sonality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, phys ical examination, and "personal profile," together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeutic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X-rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantas magoria of contemporary laboratory tests, and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before.
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Book Title: The Patient
Book Subtitle: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice
Authors: Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4955-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Hoyle Leigh and Morton F. Reiser 1985
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-4957-0Published: 08 April 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-4955-6Published: 08 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 458
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations