SPRINGER CLINICAL UNCERTAINTY IN PRIMARY CARE 2013 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: CLINICAL UNCERTAINTY IN PRIMARY CARE: THE CHALLENGE

OF COLLABORATIVE ENGAGEMENT

PUBLISHER: SPRINGER LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/UgMwgk RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.03.04

ISBN: 9781461468127 STORE DATE: 2013

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AUTHOR: SOMMERS, LUCIA SIEGEL, LAUNER, JOHN (EDS.)



BOOK



This is a book about primary care clinicians and the clinical

uncertainty endemic to their work. Even when seemingly

straightforward, each patient raises unique questions regarding

how best to listen to their complaints, empathize with their

suffering, or respond to their silences



This book is also about addressing uncertainty in primary care

practice and engaging it. Engagement requires knowledge, explicit

and tacit, placed in the service of a single patient's problem

It also requires carefully managed communication, facilitating

dialogue with the patient and encouraging shared

problem-solving



Most importantly, this book is about collaborative engagement

with case-based uncertainty in the setting of small groups of

clinicians. Sommers and Launer contend that the medical

profession's tradition of working independently should be

augmented with an explicitly shared, collegial one of jointly

creating wisdom through practice-based learning



An international panel of expert clinicians and educators

provides:

* Perspectives on clinical uncertainty in the medical

literature* A taxonomy of clinical uncertainty with patient

examples* Analysis of the educator role to support clinicians in

engaging uncertainty * A compendium of small group methods for

collaborative engagement with clinical scenarios* Analysis of

the special challenges of collaborative engagement

A mind-opening manifesto, Clinical Uncertainty in Primary Care

will equip primary care clinicians, educators, public health and

behavioral health professionals with resources for infusing

practice with meaning through collegial collaboration



From the Foreword: "Lucia Sommers and John Launer, with the

accompanying inputof their contributing authors, have done a

deeply insightful and close to exhaustive job of defining

clinical uncertainty. They identify its origins, components, and

subtypes; demonstrate the ways in which and the extent to which

it is intrinsic to medicine.and present a cogent case for its

special relationship to primary care practice.Clinical

Uncertainty in Primary Care not only presents a model of

collegial collaboration and support, it also implicitly

legitimates it." Renee Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the

Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania