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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
[Clinical Judgment: the scientific method applied to medical attention]
1Centro Médico ABC Campus Observatorio, Departamento de Enseñanza. Ciudad de México, México.
Abstract:
Medical care based on technical rationality, along with "Evidence-Based Medicine", converted the doctor in an operative technician and relegated the participation of the patient, only with his disease. The health-disease phenomenon results from the complex patient-environment interaction over time. The management of this intricate situation led the development of Clinical Judgment -scientific method applied to the clinic- and is described in the "Architecture of Clinical Research". Dr. Alvan R. Feinstein wrote, "There is nothing in such description [of the concepts] that a sensible physician, experienced in health care, does not know, or cannot understand".
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