Lessons in mortality [[electronic resource] ] : doctors and patients struggling together / / Allen B. Weisse
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| Autore: |
Weisse Allen B
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| Titolo: |
Lessons in mortality [[electronic resource] ] : doctors and patients struggling together / / Allen B. Weisse
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616 |
| Soggetto topico: | Critically ill - Psychology |
| Critically ill - Conduct of life | |
| Physician and patient | |
| Health behavior | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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.: | 9910451942403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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