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Indications for Therapy

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This chapter will broadly examine considerations about how to approach the treatment of those who wish to remain healthy or have their existing disease eliminated, or, at the least, prevented from getting worse. Those seeking care will be called “patients,” even though that word itself implies that the patient is less knowledgeable and less powerful than the physician, which results in a self-fulfilling prophecy: specifically, that doctors act as if they know more and patients act as if they know less. There are aspects related to health and disease about which physicians are expected to be more knowledgeable than patients. However, only the patient knows what he or she wants, and only the patient has the power to care for himself or herself. As such, then, patients have many powers that physicians do not have; recognizing this is essential for both the patient and the physician if the appropriate goal - health - is to be achieved. Nevertheless, not being able to use the word “patient” introduces such awkwardness in language that there is no other practical option.

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Spaeth, G.L. (2010). Indications for Therapy. In: Schacknow, P., Samples, J. (eds) The Glaucoma Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76700-0_14

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