1st Edition
Complexity in Healthcare and the Language of Consultation Exploring the Other Side of Medicine
By Derek Steinberg
Copyright 2005
200 Pages
by
CRC Press
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This book provides an important contribution to the new and growing field of 'narrative-based medicine'. It specifically addresses the largest area of medical activity primary care. It provides both a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual consultations family work clinical supervision and teamwork and offers a comprehensive approach to the whole range of work in... Read more
Introduction: the three kinds of consultation. What are we talking about? The key to complexity: systems consultation. What seems to be the trouble? Why healthcare is complicated, and will get worse. Theory to practice: principles, guidelines and some rules. Consultation with working groups and organisations. Consultation as teaching and training. Consultation in assessing and managing clinical problems. Consultation as self-management: consulting with oneself. Consulting the client: the patient as specialist. Medicine as art, art as medicine: the humanities in healthcare. Systems consultation and the other side of common sense.
Biography
Derek Steinberg
