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Your Health, Your Decisions
Robert A. McNutt
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Description for Your Health, Your Decisions
Num Pages: 176 pages, 5 figs., 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBDP; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is atthe center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician’sdecisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from an opposite premise: thepatient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practicalapproach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the toolsand confidence to compare and contrast their health-care options so theycan make their own choices. He addresses a number of scenarios, includingheart disease, breast cancer, and prostate cancer—conditions that pose arange of choices that patients may face about diagnoses and treatments.
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In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is atthe center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician’sdecisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from an opposite premise: thepatient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practicalapproach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the toolsand confidence to compare and contrast their health-care options so theycan make their own choices. He addresses a number of scenarios, includingheart disease, breast cancer, and prostate cancer—conditions that pose arange of choices that patients may face about diagnoses and treatments.
After providing ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629179
SKU
V9781469629179
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About Robert A. McNutt
Robert Alan McNutt, M.D., is a clinician, researcher, teacher, decision analyst,
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