Cybermedicine

Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care Hardcover – May 12, 1997

Author: Visit Amazon's Warner V. Slack Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0787903434 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Dr. Warner Slack has reasonable opinions on the practice of medicine--whatever helps patients live happier, healthier lives is good medicine; whatever interferes with patients' health is bad; and the more knowledge and control put into patients' hands, the better. Slack also enthusiastically believes that computers are powerful tools for good medicine. Obviously, computer technology is at the root of a wide area of diagnostic and surgical tools, from CAT scans to surgical monitors, but that's not what Slack discusses. He looks at computers as communication tools for storing and retrieving information--tools that empower patients to take a greater role in their own health care and provide physicians with a wider range of knowledge and capabilities.

Slack first examines how computers in medicine have affected patients, showing how, contrary to all fears of the '50s and '60s, the computer has been a tool for humanizing medicine. The Internet has brought patients together into online help groups. Information about medical matters, once handed down to patients from on high (if at all), is now available to anyone who learns the fundamentals of a search engine. And even in treatment itself, preliminary interviews through computer forms have made patients feel more at ease, led to greater insights, and evoked feelings of being more in control. Slack explains how computers have allowed doctors to network, gain quick and easy access to all the latest technical information, and review medical information.

Slack's conclusion is that the medical world needs more computers, but he tempers his enthusiasm with caution regarding the challenges of maintaining confidentiality. Slack writes without a trace of ponderousness and with refreshing common sense. His emphasis on the patient as an intelligent human being rather than as an object to be treated is uplifting. Not only should all doctors, patients, and health care administrators read this book, they should discuss it with each other.

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"A very compassionate, patient-first physician pressing for bolder and more comprehensive computer uses in clinical medicine and in direct patient interaction." —? From the Foreword by Ralph Nader

?The influence of the computer on medical care is just starting. Cybermedicine is the most current and complete guide for the layman or professional.? —?Dean S. Edell, M.D., medical journalist

"For all computer-savvy health professionals--and of considerable interest to consumers involved in today's online health revolution." —Tom Ferguson, M.D., author of Health Online

"A superb balanced overview of the remarkable contributions in medicine and health that computers have already made to patients and physicians alike, and of the even more remarkable contributions to which we can look forward from a pioneer in the field, who is responsible for many of the good things that have happened." —Howard H. Hiatt, M.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, former dean, Harvard School of Public Health

?This highly readable book should attract anyone interested in the computer medical revolution that is called Cybermedicne.? —?Alvan R. Feinstein, MD, Sterling professor of medicine & epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine

"Makes a well-reasoned case for the increased use of computers, both to enhance what doctors do as well as to help patients become more informed, and, in some cases, to assist in their care." —Diane Eicher, Denver Post

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• Hardcover: 214 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (May 12, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787903434
• ISBN-13: 978-0787903435
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,984,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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