Patients, Doctors and Healers (original) (raw)

Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

Springer eBooks, 2017

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New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies

The National Medical Journal of India, 2018

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Clinical Perspectives on Meaning

Springer eBooks, 2016

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Quick Guide to Good Clinical Practice

Springer eBooks, 2017

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2013 Doctor-patient relationships, laws, clinical guidelines, best practices, evidence-based medicine, medical errors and patient safety. By Claudio Violato

Canadian Medical Education Journal CMEJ, 2010

Patient safety has now become a mantra of modern medical practice. Rules, laws, guidelines, evidence and best practices are frequently invoked to improve patient safety. These are not new; they have governed the practice of medicine since antiquity. A set of laws, known as the Code of Hammurabi (circa 1740 B.C.E.) have come down to us from the Babylonians after its namesake, the founder of the Babylonian empire.1 These 282 statues or common laws governed nearly all aspects of social, political, economic and professional life including those pertaining to physicians, surgeons, veterinarians, midwifes and wet nurses. Carefully conscribed details were devoted to specifying the relationship between patients and practitioners, including fees and penalties. Problems of “internal medicine” were dealt with physicians of the priestly class who saw to internal disorders caused by supernatural factors.

Health, Culture and Society

Health, Culture and Society, 2017

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Professionalism in Medicine

Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks, 2006

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