This book is a tribute to memory. We live fully through our memories and recounting tells others who we are. Also, by recounting memories we share intimately with others. I hope my book encourages you to remember and share your fondest memories. We are all soulmates via the sharing of memories.
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“In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician’s decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by
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Making a diagnosis is a process of managing uncertainty. When we are ill, our body responds with “symptoms and signs”. A symptom is a tangible feeling such as pain. A sign is a detectable physical alteration. The body is wonderfully complex in function (biochemistry, pathology, embryology, genetics, for examples) but relatively limited in how it
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I have been warned; trying to help people become better diagnosticians may be a fool’s errand. The primary expertise of a physician, after all, resides in their ability to diagnose a malady that causes your complaints. I claim, and my first book directly addresses, that the best decision maker for treatments is you; you are
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