Caring for Patients

Caring for Patients

A Critique of the Medical Model

by Allen Barbour

420 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780804731539
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An experienced and compassionate physician questions the prevailing medical model of patient care?that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically?and argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social situation of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.

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