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The New Medicine: An Introduction 3
Pt. I Why Doctor Does Not Know Best
1 The Puzzling Case of the Broken Arm 21
2 Hernias, Diets, and Drugs 25
3 Why Physicians Cannot Know What Will Benefit Patients 33
4 Sacrificing Patient Benefit to Protect Patient Rights 43
5 Societal Interests and Duties to Others 51
6 The New, Limited, Twenty-First-Century Role for Physicians as Patient Assistants 57
7 Abandoning Modern Medical Concepts: Doctor's "Orders" and Hospital "Discharge" 65
8 Medicine Can't "Indicate": So Why Do We Talk That Way? 71
9 "Treatments of Choice" and "Medical Necessity": Who Is Fooling Whom? 83
Pt. II New Concepts for the New Medicine
10 Abandoning Informed Consent 91
11 Why Physicians Get It Wrong and the Alternatives to Consent: Patient Choice and Deep Value Pairing 103
12 The End of Prescribing: Why Prescription Writing Is Irrational 111
13 The Alternatives to Prescribing 119
14 Are Fat People Overweight? 135
15 Beyond Prettiness: Death, Disease, and Being Pat 141
16 Universal but Varied Health Insurance: Only Separate Is Equal 155
17 Health Insurance: The Case for Multiple Lists 161
18 Why Hospice Care Should Not Be a Part of Ideal Health Care: I. The History of the Hospice 175
19 Why Hospice Care Should Not Be a Part of Ideal Health Care: II. Hospice in a Postmodern Era 183
Pt. III The New Medicine and the New Medical Science
20 Randomized Human Experimentation: The Modern Dilemma 195
21 Randomized Human Experimentation: A Proposal for the New Medicine 209
22 Clinical Practice Guidelines and Why They Are Wrong 219
23 Outcomes Research and How Values Sneakinto Finding of Fact 229
24 The Consensus of Medical Experts and Why It Is Wrong So Often 239
Epilogue: A Patient Manifesto 253
Notes 259
Index 277
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Danio Brienza
reviewed Patient, Heal Thyself: How the New Medicine Puts the Patient in Charge on July 12, 2010
Patient, Heal Thyself
Veatch is highly iconoclastic. In fact, at times the book lulled me into thinking he was being satirical--I was waiting for him to add that we should eat the excess babies when I realized he was being perfectly serious. His ideas have merit; the recognition that all decisions we make in medicine are heavily value-laden is important. However, his philosophy also seems reactionary. It is the pendulum swinging from paternalism to unrestricted libertarianism. As such, it denies the value and moral agency of medical providers' knowledge and standing as human beings, respectively. There must be a middle ground, with a sound ethical norm, couched in a reasonable set of "know-able" concepts, that does not require an impossibly administratively complex revamping of the medical system or an impossibly chaotically individualized standard of communication among patients and providers. Among the concepts not introduced in the book, but probably worthy of exploration, is the role that basic health literacy should play in the establishment of transparent norms for understanding medical biases towards being interventionist and for respecting both agents in communication.
Personal note: see notes in "Veatch Basics of Bioethics."
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