vbid/9781003827726

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If medicine is so great, why are people getting sick? Why don�t people turn up for follow-up checks or take their pills properly? And why do patients sometimes seem to come from another planet? Medicine doesn�t happen in a vacuum. It happens between doctors and patients, who seem to inhabit very different worlds. It�s not enough to think about medicine. We need to think more about patients. Originally published in 2001 and reissued here with a new preface, Thinking About Patients promotes a multidimensional model of medicine. It offers a practical guide to the psychological and social processes involved in practicing medicine and in being a patient. It will help us to return to what medicine is all about � using our skills to serve patients.Typham this is the title: Thinking About Patients 1st Edition