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Mangalik Aroop <1935-> |
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Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / / Aroop Mangalik |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Chronically ill - Care |
Chronically ill - Family relationships |
Chronically ill - Treatment |
Physician and patient |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Dealing with the inevitability of death -- Communication, hope and honesty -- Religion, healing and death -- Patient autonomy and medical expertise: how to find a balance -- Planning for your life, illness and death -- Do no harm -- Statistics: they help and they fool -- Why doctors over-treat: training and mindset -- Why doctors over-treat: pressure from society and the medical -- Establishment -- Why doctors over-treat: flaws in the way they deal with patients -- When doctors say 'no' -- Why patients demand unrealistic treatments -- How to reduce over-treatment -- How to proceed toward comfort. |
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