The Patient: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice

by Hoyle Leigh

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468449575
• ISBN13: 9781468449570
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

learn to be with the patients

This is a good book for health professionals to read. To learn to be with the patients, it is necessary to read this book first to acquire the understanding of the positions the patients take, the process they go through, the ways they are--the personality types. This is my favorite book on these topics.