A way of working : essays on the practice of medicine / by Eugene A. Stead, Jr. ; edited by Barton F. Haynes.
| Author/creator | Stead, Eugene A. |
| Other author | Haynes, Barton F. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©2001. |
| Description | xvii, 350 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Medical education for the future. Origin of the species -- To manage or not to manage -- Intern and residency training -- Medical care: its social and organizational aspects ; postgraduate medical education in the hospital -- Medical education and practice -- The evolution of the medical university -- The limitations of teaching -- Training is no substitute for education -- Making safe doctors -- The role of science and of the belief systems of patients and the doctors in the practice of medicine -- A curious, interested doctor at peace with the complexities of biology. Academic medical centers. Retooling clinical departments in academic health centers -- Building a school -- The essence of a viable medical center -- The nature of administration in academic health centers -- The role of the university in graduate training -- The setting of the Hanes Ward Project. The computerized medical database: the way of the future. Creation of personnel at the medical/computer interface: should it be a specialty? -- The way of the future -- The National Library of Medicine: the great equalizer between small hospitals and major medical centers -- Computers, doctors and medical students -- Biomedical instructional technology: the state of the art -- Computerized medical practice: old dreams and current realities. The community and their doctors. The future is here -- On community hospitals -- The assets of a community hospital -- Picking other people's brains. The medical workforce: some new ideas. Educational programs and manpower -- Training and use of paramedical personnel -- The physician's assistant and internal medicine -- New roles for personnel in hospitals: physician extenders -- Up the health staircase. Healthcare and the nation: where are we going? Family practice -- Why moon walking is simpler than social progress -- A proposal for identification of those few areas of essential functions which are not best served by our present economic system ; can better systems be devised? -- Space biology and medicine--an unmet challenge -- A proposal for the creation of a free-standing National Academy of Medicine -- The delivery of health care -- Unsolved issues in medicine: geriatrics as a case in point -- Quality of medical care -- "Clinical trials" for proposed legislation? -- Cost conscious doctors -- The Duke plan -- The balance between freedom, public, and private enterprises and national service -- A proposal for the creation of a compulsory National Service Corps -- The opportunities for a research program on myocardial infarction: the report of the NIH Ad Hoc Committee. |
| Local note | Laupus WC Contract Cataloging |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 00111319 |
| ISBN | 0890892423 |
| ISBN | 9780890892428 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | W 9 S799W 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |