What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

Despite modern medicine's fascination with modern gadgets, the most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover a large proportion of diseases. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two very different things....

Doctors and Patients

The book considers for the first time the doctor/patient relationship over a long period and from a broad geographical perspective. Historians, anthropologists and physicians reflect on the factors that, from the classical era to the present day, have changed the relationship of care and the embedded...