Name: Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient
Creator: Abraham, Verghese
Keywords: Physician-Patient Relations, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Medical Records Systems, Computerized, Point-of-Care Systems, Humans, Internship and Residency, Clinical Competence, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 25 Dec 2008 English Publisher:Massachusetts Medical SocietyJournal:New England Journal of Medicine, volume 359, pages 2,748-2,751 (issn: 0028-4793, eissn: 1533-4406,

Authors: Abraham, Verghese;

doi: 10.1056/nejmp0807461

pmid: 19109572

Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient

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Abstract

Dr. Abraham Verghese discusses the problem with a “chart as surrogate for the patient” approach. He believes that if one eschews the skilled and repeated examination of the real patient, then tests, consultations, and procedures that might not be needed are ordered, while simple diagnoses and new developments are overlooked.

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Physician-Patient Relations, Medical Records Systems, Computerized, Point-of-Care Systems, Humans, Internship and Residency, Clinical Competence

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