Mangalik, Aroop,  1935- <br/><br/>
Dealing with doctors, denial, and death :  a guide to living well with serious illness / 
Aroop Mangalik, MD. 
 - xiv, 260 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442272804 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016025054 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chronically ill--Care.<br/>Chronically ill--Family relationships.<br/>Chronically ill--Treatment.<br/>Physician and patient.<br/>Medical ethics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC108  / .M366 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616/.044