How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine - Softcover

Mongtomery, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199942056 ISBN 13: 9780199942053

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical studies to construct a tentative account of the illness.
How Doctors Think is divided into four parts. Part one introduces the concept of medicine as a practice rather than a science; part two discusses the idea of causation; part three delves into the process of forming clinical judgment; and part four considers clinical judgment within the uncertain nature of medicine itself. In How Doctors Think, Montgomery contends that assuming medicine is strictly a science can have adverse side effects, and suggests reducing these by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgment.

"This is a book that will be read with pleasure by anyone interested in how medicine is done and it is a book that should be required reading for all students starting their clinical training."--Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

"Montgomery has certainly written a piece that will stimulate people to think more deeply about medical and wider health professional practice. It is a text I will recommend to students and colleagues."--PsycCRITIQUES

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199942056
• ISBN 13: 9780199942053
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk; ; Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street; Dublin; D02 YH68; Irland