Symptoms of unknown origin : a medical odyssey

• Tác giả: Clifton K Meador
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0826514731
• ISBN-10: 082651474X
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 616 Diseases
• Thông tin xuất bản: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005
• Mô tả vật lý: xv, 175 p. ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học ứng dụng
• ID: 48002
• Chủ đề: 1. Clinical medicine; 2. Diagnostic errors; 3. Medical misconceptions; 4. Medicine--Philosophy; 5. Clinical Medicine; 6. Diagnostic Errors; 7. Philosophy, Medical; 8. Physician-Patient Relations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"Recounting case studies, Dr. Clifton Meador shows how physicians can recognize and treat patients with symptoms that might at first appear imaginary or unconnected to disease. In chapters like "The Woman Who Believed She Was a Man" and "The Diarrhea of Agnes", Meador reveals both the considerable harm that can result from wrong diagnoses of nonexistent diseases and the methods he developed to help patients with chronic symptoms not defined by a medical disease. Throughout the book, he recommends subsequent studies to test his observations, and he urges full application of the scientific method to the doctor-patient relationship."--BOOK JACKET.