Looking Back (And Forth): Reflections of an Old- Fashioned Doctor

by Fred, Herbert L.

• ISBN13: 9780865547728
• ISBN10: 0865547726
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Author Biography

Herbert L. Fred is Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Table of Contents

Dedication	vii
Foreword	viii
Denton A. Cooley
Foreword	x
Patrick Russell
Acknowledgments	xii
Original Publication Sources	xiii
Caring for the Patient	1	(44)
Old-Fashioned Doctors	3	(2)
I Remember When	5	(3)
The Tyranny of Technology	8	(6)
Tenets for Physicians in the New Millennium	14	(7)
Just What the Doctor Ordered	21	(4)
Remember the Rattlesnake	25	(3)
Washing Our Hands of the Matter	28	(2)
Digital Rectal Examination During Early Acute MI	30	(4)
The Interesting Patient	34	(2)
Algorithms: Let's Give Them Back	36	(4)
The Numbers Game	40	(5)
On Schooling the Physician	45	(48)
Doing Nothing	47	(2)
Previous Medical Records: Lest We Forget	49	(6)
The Blind Leading the Blind	55	(5)
Requiem for the Ophthalmoscope	60	(3)
Night Sweats	63	(3)
To Be B or Not to Be B: Is That the Question?	66	(5)
The Shakespearean Principle	71	(4)
Curable Conspicuous Ascites: The Forgotten Four	75	(6)
When the Bell Doesn't Ring	81	(2)
Five Cases in Search of a Diagnostician	83	(10)
Looking Back	93	(20)
Looking Back	95	(5)
Courvoisier Revisited	100	(3)
Contarini's Condition	103	(3)
The Clinicopathological Conference	106	(7)
Dizzy Medical Writing	113	(36)
DLTBGYD	115	(3)
Dizzy Medical Writing and Editing: No Relief in Sight	118	(7)
Dizzy Medical Writing and Editing: A Decade of Non-Progress	125	(12)
Dizzy Medical Editing: Causes, Consequences, and Cures	137	(12)
Miscellany	149	(24)
On Being Politically Correct	151	(3)
Clinical Observations During a 1,000-Mile Footrace	154	(6)
On An Average Day	160	(2)
Parliament of Whores	162	(3)
Cause or Coincidence?	165	(2)
There but for the Grace of God...	167	(3)
C. T. Scanner Dies	170	(3)
Epilogue	173