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Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / Aroop Mangalik, MD.

By: Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]Description: xiv, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442272804 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Dealing with doctors, denial, and deathDDC classification:
  • 616/.044 23
LOC classification:
  • RC108 .M366 2017
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RC108 .M366 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001425056

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.

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.

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