For healthcare professionals, researchers, academic instructors, and students, Biswas (internal medicine, People's College of Medical Sciences, India) assembles 13 chapters that address clinical problem solving through user-driven healthcare. Medical and other researchers and patients from around the globe, often presenting dual perspectives, address topics such as user-driven psychiatry, drug side effects, alternative medicine, the health effectiveness of different models of practice, a decision support system for emergency health care, the use of collective intelligence programs to improve rural health outcomes, a web-based conversational learning system, addiction and drug dependence, and creating medical education resources through interactive conversational learning.
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