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

By:

Berger, Zackary, 1973- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442242333

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

R727 .M355 2016

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	R727.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn948512227

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.

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