Medicine Across Borders |
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| Author:
| Massad, Susan |
| ISBN: | 978-1-6678-1769-9 |
| Publisher: | BookBaby
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $3.99 |
Book Description:
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MEDICINE AND HEALING don't reduce to knowledge transfer. A Google search is no replacement for a healthy doctor/patient relationship! Susan Massad has spent a lifetime helping doctors and patients build healing relationships. The essays and articles in this book present a social therapeutic approach to the subjective/relational side of medicine--without which medicine, she argues, becomes dehumanized and sometimes deadly. Patients have what doctors need most: the experience of their...
More DescriptionMEDICINE AND HEALING don't reduce to knowledge transfer. A Google search is no replacement for a healthy doctor/patient relationship! Susan Massad has spent a lifetime helping doctors and patients build healing relationships. The essays and articles in this book present a social therapeutic approach to the subjective/relational side of medicine--without which medicine, she argues, becomes dehumanized and sometimes deadly. Patients have what doctors need most: the experience of their pain and symptomatology. Doctors have nuanced expertise with actual patients--beyond the generic data. As they build the doctor/patient relationship, says Massad, that's when the magic happens.