8.3 The clinician view

The first 83 and the next 83: perspectives on neurotoxicology.

This commentary depicts the author's history, and how it became interwoven with neurotoxicology. Born in 1925, most of his life spanned a century burdened with calamitous wars as well as revolutionary developments in science. Aviation played a large role in the century's wars and in the author's outlook on the world. He moved from a literary perspective, after his war experiences, to one govern...

Coagulation for the clinician.

Psychopharmacology for the Clinician

A 47-year-old man with a long history of alcohol dependence and impaired control over intake has refused all the approaches suggested to him (e.g., detoxification followed by residential treatment, Alcoholics Anonymous, cognitive–behavioural therapy). He maintains a reasonable psychosocial adjustment (i.e., family relations, work, leisure), and physical damage (neurological, cardiovascular, liv...

The epistemically virtuous clinician.

Today, modern Western medicine is facing a quality-of-care crisis that is undermining the patient-physician relationship. In this paper, a notion of the epistemically virtuous clinician is proposed in terms of both the reliabilist and responsibilist versions of virtue epistemology, in order to help address this crisis. To that end, a clinical case study from the literature is first reconstructe...

The nurse-clinician.

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