Justin A. Ezekowitz, MBBCh, MSc, considers how shifting from a short-term view of treating heart failure, one attached to the acute setting, to a more extended view associated with a chronic condition plays out in the clinical scene.
Taking the long view means, he suggests, enlarging one's notions of treatment to include a host of other clinicians and healthcare professionals — a team whose separate areas of expertise together form a coherent and dynamic whole that provides the surest ground for the comprehensive care of patients with heart failure.
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