Patient Centered Medicine

Patient-centered medicine is not an illness-centered, a physician-centered, or a hospital-centered medicine approach. In this book, it is aimed at presenting an approach to patient-centered medicine from the beginning of life to the end of life. As indicated by W. Osler, ""It is much more...

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Main Author: Omur Sayligil (auth)
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Published: IntechOpen 2017
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