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A collection of true accounts of meaningful relationships between doctors and patients demonstrates the healing potential of productive interaction in the face of rampant depersonalization in the world of managed care health systems. 15,000 first printing.
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"Dissatisfied with the delivery of health care? ... The Best Medicine could do much to restore the expectations of that relationship--which is the heart and soul of medicine." --C. Everett Koop, M.D.
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A pediatrician in New York inspires her own patient, a girl with sickle-cell anemia, to become a doctor herself.
An oncologist in Chicago lets go of her preconceived ideas about gay life as she becomes friends with a man who has AIDS.
A general practitioner in Chattanooga uses literature to heal, prescribing novels and poetry to go with good medicine.
These are just three of the wonderful doctors who practice the Best Medicine and who, along with their patients, can be found in these pages. Each of the twenty-five doctor-patient relationships portrayed in this book reveals ways we can all improve our health, our lives, and our communities.
For too long the value of the doctor-patient relationship has been ignored in the national debate over health care. Many Americans, who have lost their connections to their doctors who know their patients well can provide not only the best, but the most cost-effective care as well.
All of us eventually play the patient's role. At some point a relationship with a doctor becomes central to our lives, even a matter of life and death. The Best Medicine shows the value of forming a close bond between doctor and patient well before a crisis arises, and it shows us all how to do it even in the world of modern health care.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312241844
- ISBN 13 9780312241841
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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