Meador, Clifton K., 1931-

Symptoms of unknown origin : a medical odyssey / Clifton K. Meador - 1st ed - Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 - xv, 175 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

An unlikely lesson from a medical desert -- Texas heat -- Dr. Drayton Doherty and Miss Cootsie -- All some patients need is listening and talking -- Diagnoses without diseases -- The woman who believed she was a man -- Mind and body -- Sweet Thing -- New clinical interventions -- Florence's symptoms -- Symptoms without disease -- Looking back on Fairhope -- The diarrhea of Agnes -- Dr. Jim's breasts -- The woman who would not talk -- The woman who could not tell her husband anything -- Staying out of God's way -- A paradoxical approach -- You can't be everybody's doctor -- In tune with the patient

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Clinical medicine--Case studies
Diagnostic errors
Medical misconceptions
Medicine--Philosophy
Clinical Medicine
Diagnostic Errors
Philosophy, Medical
Physician-Patient Relations


Anecdotes

RC66 / .M43 2005

616

2005 F-254 WB 102 / M482s 2005