Between Doctors and Patients
Author : Lilian R. Furst
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN : 9780813917559
Pages : 310 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (557 Download)
Download and Read Between Doctors and Patients PDF by Lilian R. Furst Full Book and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many books on the mechanics of doctor-patient interaction, none has previously confronted the philosophical and psychological issues of power and trust that bind these figures. One consequence of their changed relationship, Furst asserts, has been the decrease of interest in patients as individuals. In this time of impersonal HMOs and spiraling health-care costs, she hopes that doctors and patients can learn from the past and eventually find a mutually beneficial balance of power that will see medicine as both a science and an art and will recognize human understanding as an integral element of healing.