Does Minimal Access Mean Minimal Relationship? Defining the Physician-Patient Relationship in Postmodern Culture

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 218-221

  Beals, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Laparoscopy; Litigation; Malpractice; Philosophy; Postmodern; Virtue

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; REVIEW; SOCIETY;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 84993830052     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060200900406     Document Type: Article

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