Lessons in mortality [electronic resource] : doctors and patients struggling together /

Weisse, Allen B.

Lessons in mortality doctors and patients struggling together / [electronic resource] : Allen B. Weisse. - Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006. - 182 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

"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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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DNLM


Critically ill--Psychology.
Critically ill--Conduct of life.
Physician and patient.
Health behavior.


Electronic books.

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