title: Patient education: then and now.
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Spencer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000451:nursing