Hippocrates' shadow : secrets from the house of medicine / David H. Newman.

New York, NY : Scribner, 2008.

xviii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

"what doctors don't know, don't tell you, and how truth can repair the patient-doctor breach"--Jacket.

Foreword: Dr. Hippocrates -- We don't know -- It doesn't work -- We don't agree -- We don't talk -- We prefer tests -- We won't unlearn (the pseudoaxioms) -- We're missing the meaning (the placebo paradox) -- You're a number (the "NNT") -- A new old paradigm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-225) and index.