Henry S Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry S Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry S |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Health Science Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Patient-centered Involvement in Decision-Making
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Ideally, doctors ask each patient's current views about involvement in decision-making, but inquiries prove inconclusive with some inpatients. Doctors may then need indirect indicators of those views. We, therefore, explored ethnic group and sex as cultural indicators of patients' current preferences and perceptions about such involvement. METHODS: In open-response interviews, we asked those preferences and perceptions of 2…
Patients Are Hardly Too Thin or Too Rich
famously quipped, "You can never be too thin or too rich." Her comment comes to me occasionally as I care for patients at a publicly funded, inner-city clinic in San Antonio, Texas-one of the poorest, most obese cities in the country. All my patients are poor, and most suffer obesity-related diseases-especially diabetes, hypertension, and osteoarthritis. One patient I care for is a middle-aged woman with uncontrolled diabetes who is overweight. S…
Ethics Expertise and Cultural Competence
Case Mrs. Ramsarathan was brought to the hospital by her son-in-law. She had arrived in America 2 days earlier from her remote village in India in anticipation of the birth of her first grandchild. Soon after arriving, Mrs. Ramsarathan's family noticed that she was unable to keep down much, if any, food. Though they had avoided the American medical system in the time they had been in this country, the family was frightened at her continued vomiti…
Race and the Delivery of Care
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Physicians pursuing the humanities
Race and the Delivery of Care
Ethics Expertise and Cultural Competence
Case Mrs. Ramsarathan was brought to the hospital by her son-in-law. She had arrived in America 2 days earlier from her remote village in India in anticipation of the birth of her first grandchild. Soon after arriving, Mrs. Ramsarathan's family noticed that she was unable to keep down much, if any, food. Though they had avoided the American medical system in the time they had been in this country, the family was frightened at her continued vomiti…
Patients Are Hardly Too Thin or Too Rich
famously quipped, "You can never be too thin or too rich." Her comment comes to me occasionally as I care for patients at a publicly funded, inner-city clinic in San Antonio, Texas-one of the poorest, most obese cities in the country. All my patients are poor, and most suffer obesity-related diseases-especially diabetes, hypertension, and osteoarthritis. One patient I care for is a middle-aged woman with uncontrolled diabetes who is overweight. S…
Patient-centered Involvement in Decision-Making
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Ideally, doctors ask each patient's current views about involvement in decision-making, but inquiries prove inconclusive with some inpatients. Doctors may then need indirect indicators of those views. We, therefore, explored ethnic group and sex as cultural indicators of patients' current preferences and perceptions about such involvement. METHODS: In open-response interviews, we asked those preferences and perceptions of 2…
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anticipation (artificial intelligence (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Assertiveness (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work)