Clinical Inertia A Critique of Medical Reason
Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the partic
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Clinical Inertia
Gérard Reach
Clinical Inertia A Critique of Medical Reason
Gérard Reach Avicenne Hospital and Paris 13 University, Sorbonne Paris Cité Bobigny France
Translation from the French language edition ‘L’inertie clinique’ by Reach, Gérard, © Springer-Verlag France, Paris, 2013; ISBN 978-2-8178-0312-8. Translation by Claudia Ratti ISBN 978-3-319-09881-4 ISBN 978-3-319-09882-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09882-1 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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To Isabelle
First law of motion, or principle of inertia: Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed. Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Einstein
Foreword
In this book, and in his other writings on the psychology of the doctor-patient relationship, Dr. Gérard Reach breaks new ground. He does so because he comes to the issues as practicing doctor and
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