The practice of medicine: neither science nor art
Ofri, Danielle
While there might have been a large, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of healthy, uninsured, mildly diabetic, previously febrile but currently afebrile, Pakistani men in the diagnosis and treatment of presumptive community-acquired pneumonia, I wasn't aware of it, and for sure didn't have the time to go hunting on Medline with eight other patients waiting to see me. Yes, there has been enough written about diabetes to sink a galleon, but there is no invariant law that will predict exactly what will transpire in my patient with his unique constellation of glucose control, pulmonary pathology, drug absorption, cultural expectations, financial constraints, and personality quirks
PROQUEST:199029905
ISSN: 0140-6736
CID: 2529752
Living will
Chapter by: Ofri, Danielle
in: The best American essays 2005 by Orlean S; Atwan R [Eds]
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005
pp. ?-?
ISBN: 0618357130
CID: 4690