Patient, Heal Thyself

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Patient, Heal Thyself is written by Robert Veatch and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190295309 (ISBN 10) and 9780190295301 (ISBN 13).

Robert Veatch, one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics, sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping through the American health care system, a change that puts the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented extent. The change is in how we think about medical decision-making. Whereas medicine's core idea was that medical decisions should be based on the hard facts of science--the province of the doctor--the "new medicine" contends that medical decisions impose value judgments. Since physicians are not trained to make value judgments, the pendulum has swung greatly toward the patient.