Smart medicine : how the changing role of doctors will revolutionize health care /

Smart medicine : how the changing role of doctors will revolutionize health care /

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Author / Creator:	Hanson, William, M.D.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description:	261 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical innovations. Diffusion of Innovation -- United States. Delivery of Health Care -- trends -- United States. Physician's Role -- United States. Medical innovations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8543636

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ISBN:	9780230621152 (hardback) 0230621155 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index.
Summary:	"We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world--from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping through the medical community: pharmacies that double as walk-in clinics; health services that will be delivered online; electronic records that hold the history of every drug or blood test you ever took. You might go to a genome specialist to identify the ticking time bomb in your genes, or you might show a rash to your doctor via videophone from thousands of miles away. The plethora of new options will change the way you and your doctor make decisions. Sophisticated yet written in easily accessible language, this is a penetrating look at the new world of medicine"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Disclaimer
Introduction
Part1 Modern Medicine.
Chapter 1. Bed Nine Did Die
Chapter 2. Bones
Chapter 3. See Ya, in 2015
Chapter 4. Code!
Chapter 5. Stretch, Floss, Dance and Mentor
Part II. Histories of Medicine
Chapter 6. Dead Presidents
Chapter 7. Go Forth and Multiply
Chapter 8. Such Waste Is Tragic
Chapter 9. For One Good New Suit of Clothes
Part III. New Methods of Care
Chapter 10. Binocular Vision
Chapter 11. Knee Jerk
Chapter 12. Doctors in Flight
Chapter 13. Medical Avatars
Chapter 14. Survival of the Fit
Chapter 15. Mother's Day
Chapter 16. Out of Network
Notes
Index