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Pourquoi les médecins ne suivent-ils pas toujours les recommandations de bonne pratique de la médecine fondée sur les faits (evidence-based medicine) élaborée pour mettre en pratique les progrès issus de la recherche médicale ? Certes, il arrive souvent que la recommandation ne s'applique pas au cas singulier que le médecin doit traiter, mais ce n'est pas toujours le cas : on parle alors d'inertie clinique, phénomène mis en lumière depuis une dizaine d'années et représentant à l'évidence une barrière à l'efficacité des soins et un problème majeur de santé publique dont ce livre montre l'ampleu

Medical logic. --- Clinical reasoning --- Logic, Medical --- Medical reasoning --- Diagnosis --- Medicine --- Philosophy

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The goal of this book is to describe the mechanisms of patients’ adherence to long-term therapies, whose improvement, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), would be more beneficial than any biomedical progress. For example, approximately half of the patients do not regularly follow medical prescriptions, resulting in deleterious effects on people’s health and a strong impact on health expenditure. This book describes how our beliefs, desires, and emotions intervene in our choices concerning our health, by referring to concepts developed within the framework of the philosophy of mind. In particular, it tries to explain how we can choose between an immediate pleasure and a remote reward—preserving our health and our life. We postulate that such an “intertemporal” choice can be directed by a “principle of foresight” which leads us to give priority to the future. Just like patients’ non-adherence to prescribed medications, doctors often don’t always do what they should: They are non-adherent to good practice guidelines. We propose that what was recently described as “clinical inertia” could also represent a case of myopia: From time to time doctors fail to consider the long-term interests of their patient. Both patients’ non-adherence and doctors’ clinical inertia represent major barriers to the efficiency of care. However, it is also necessary to respect patients’ autonomy. The analysis of relationship between mind and care which is provided in this book sheds new light on the nature of the therapeutic alliance between doctor and patient, solving the dilemma between the ethical principles of beneficence and autonomy.

Philosophy --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- History of human medicine --- Human medicine --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- deontologie --- medische ethiek