The puzzling case of the broken arm
Hernias, diets, and drugs
Why physicians cannot know what will benefit patients
Sacrificing patient benefit to protect patient rights
Societal interests and duties to others
The new, limited, twenty-first-century role for physicians as patient assistants
Abandoning modern medical concepts: doctor's "orders" and hospital "discharge"
Medicine can't "indicate": so why do we talk that way?
"Treatments of choice" and "medical necessity": who is fooling whom?
Abandoning informed consent
Why physicians get it wrong and the alternatives to consent: patient choice and deep value pairing
The end of prescribing: why prescription writing is irrational
The alternatives to prescribing
Are fat people overweight?
Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat
Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal
Health insurance: the case for multiple lists
Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care I: the history of the hospice
Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: hospice in a postmodern era
Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma
Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine
Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong
Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact
The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often.
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Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the patient in charge by Robert M. Veatch. ISBN 9780195313727. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
