TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisse,Allen B.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Lessons in mortality: doctors and patients struggling together 
AV  - R726.5 .W454 2006eb
U1  - 616 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Columbia, Mo.
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Critically ill
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Physician and patient
KW  - Health behavior
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10188297
ER  -