Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / / Aroop Mangalik
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| Autore: |
Mangalik Aroop <1935->
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| Titolo: |
Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / / Aroop Mangalik
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 616/.044 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chronically ill - Care |
| Chronically ill - Family relationships | |
| Chronically ill - Treatment | |
| Physician and patient | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dealing with doctors, denial, and death |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-7281-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910155087903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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