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Hoyle Leigh
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Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA
Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison and Outpatient Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA
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Morton F. Reiser
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Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
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The old-fashioned doctor, whose departure from the modern medical scene is so greatly lamented, was amply aware of each patient's per sonality, family, work, and way of life. Today, we often blame a doctor's absence of that awareness on moral or ethical deficiency either in medical education or in the character of people who become physicians. An alternative explanation, however, is that doctors are just as moral, ethical, and concerned as ever before, but that a vast amount of additional new information has won the competition for attention. The data available to the old-fashioned doctor were a patient's history, phys ical examination, and "personal profile," together with a limited number of generally ineffectual therapeutic agents. A doctor today deals with an enormous array of additional new information, which comes from X-rays, biopsies, cytology, electrographic tracings, and the phantas magoria of contemporary laboratory tests, and the doctor must also be aware of a list of therapeutic possibilities that are both far more effective and far more extensive than ever before.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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On Managing a Patient
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 339-345
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 347-363
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 365-383
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 385-399
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 401-418
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 419-435
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- Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser
Pages 437-443
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Back Matter
Pages 445-457
Authors and Affiliations
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Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA
Hoyle Leigh
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Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison and Outpatient Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, USA
Hoyle Leigh
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Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Morton F. Reiser