Producing Patient-Centered Health Care: Patient Perspectives about Health and Illness and the Physician/Patient Relationship

by James Monroe Smith

A holistic view of the factors that impact the health of a patient beyond the illness itself, this book examines what it is like to be a patient. It espouses the view that terminal illness may not be a tragedy but, an opportunity for emotional growth. The inadequacies of medical care today are discussed, from the failure of health care professionals to see the person with the disease, to the many ways in which managed-care organizations jeopardize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692939
• ISBN13: 9780865692930
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 10.6"