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Index
Cover
CONTENTS
AUTHORS’ NOTE
PROLOGUE
What This Book Is About
Some Basics
CHAPTER 1
The Doctor You Want (It’s Not Who You Think)
CHAPTER 2
Uncertainty Is Essential to Personal Health Care
WHERE DO MEDICAL FACTS COME FROM?
HOW DO THE FACTS FIT YOU?
RECONCILING EVIDENCE-BASED AND PERSONALIZED HEALTH CARE
WON’T A COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF YOUR GENOME ELIMINATE UNCERTAINTY?
CHAPTER 3
Finding Your Doctor: A Field Guide
CHAPTER 4
Where Doctors Come From
A Few Doctors’ Maladies to Watch For
CHAPTER 5
The Yes-or-No Obsession
CHAPTER 6
The Infallibility Illusion
CHAPTER 7
The “Poor Me” Syndrome
Some Things That Your Doctor Should Know
CHAPTER 8
The Difference between “Facts” and Facts
CHAPTER 9
Information Is Not Necessarily Knowledge
CHAPTER 10
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Statistics
CHAPTER 11
Don’t Believe Everything You Read, No Matter Where You Read It
Some Things to Expect from Your Doctor
CHAPTER 12
Your Story Is Front and Center—Narrative-Based Medicine
CHAPTER 13
An Expert Escort from Guidelines to Protocols
CHAPTER 14
The Benefits of Ignorance
CHAPTER 15
The Laying On of Hands
TO SENSE WHAT’S GOING ON INSIDE
TO CONNECT WITH WHO YOU ARE
BECAUSE SHE IS A HEALER
Fears and Hopes for the New Medicine
CHAPTER 16
The Fear of a Tyranny of Experts and Sensors
MEDICAL EXPERTS
EXPERTS IN THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE
A TYRANNY OF SENSORS?
THE DEEPER CONNECTION
CHAPTER 17
The Hope for a Digitally Powered Doctor
THE DOCTOR AS HEALER
SOME PREDICTABLE EFFECTS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETAL PRESSURES
THE DIGITAL POWERED DOCTOR
DESTRUCTION, DISRUPTION, OR EVOLUTION?
EPILOGUE
AN OPTIMIST’S DREAM
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE “NEW” MEDICINE
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