Making sense of medicine : bridging the gap between doctor guidelines and patient preferences /

Berger, Zackary, 1973- ,

Making sense of medicine : bridging the gap between doctor guidelines and patient preferences / Zackary Berger. - Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (vii, 173 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Chronic pain -- Common conditions : the gap between knowledge and preference -- Poverty -- Depression -- High blood pressure : where is the limit? -- Diabetes : sailing the uncertain A1C -- Arthritis : bred in the bone -- Surgery -- How good are guidelines? -- Is half of all research wrong? -- Avoiding false certainty -- Revisiting the biomedical paradigm.

With many common health conditions-diabetes, arthritis, depression-there is no one right route to effective treatment, and science does not give us one definitive answer. In practical chapters and through real stories, Dr. Zackary Berger shows how to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge, doctors' recommendations, and patient preferences.



9781442242333

2020739002


Physician and patient.
Patient participation.
Patient Participation.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Communication.
Practice Guidelines as Topic.


Electronic Books.

R727 / .M355 2016