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Autore: | Weisse Allen B |
Titolo: | Lessons in mortality : doctors and patients struggling together / / Allen B. Weisse |
Pubblicazione: | Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, c2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616 |
Soggetto topico: | Critically ill - Psychology |
Critically ill - Conduct of life | |
Physician and patient | |
Health behavior | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Lance Armstrong and me -- The crock -- Devotion -- The iron man -- Waste -- Marking time at Hillcrest Home -- The case of the baffling boy : chapter one -- Eddy -- Smart ass -- Victims all -- The end of the road -- Modern medicine -- The survivor -- A man what am -- Other faces of AIDS -- On dying with dignity--and a diagnosis -- The gift -- Time (overdue) for a change -- Stroke -- A letter. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Writing frankly, Weisse discusses how doctors and patients of cancer, heart disease, stroke, infectious disease, AIDS, and other dire diagnoses deal with illness in the twenty-first century, considering, in turn, how such factors as specialization, rising costs, managed care, the insurance industry, and litigation has changed the practice of medicine"--Provided by publisher. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Lessons in mortality |
ISBN: | 0-8262-6568-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820186103321 |
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