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01.05.2005 | Book Review
Thomas J.A. Lehman: It’s not just growing pains: a guide to childhood muscle, bone, and joint pain, rheumatic diseases, and the latest treatments
Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, 416 pp (ISBN 0-19-515728-1) $35
verfasst von:
Howard Trachtman
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Ausgabe 5/2005
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Excerpt
Which patient do you prefer to treat—the one who knows nothing and depends entirely on you to provide relevant information, or the one who comes in with papers and Websites armed to the teeth with questions about their child’s condition and your proposed therapeutic plan? In actuality, this question may be an anachronism because if you are in compliance with the requirements for informed consent, then your patient must understand everything about their condition that would impact on the decisions that a “routine” person would make. …