On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabet...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Profession and Professionalism
- Being a Physician
- The Art and Science of Doctoring
- Health, Disease, Illness, and Death
- Disease Detection and Diagnosis
- Therapy and Healing
- Learning and Teaching Medicine
- Medical Experience, Knowledge, and Wisdom
- Errors, Uncertainty, and Ethical Issues
- Current Issues and Future Practice