Lessons in mortality: doctors and patients struggling together
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Main Author: Weisse, Allen B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. University of Missouri Press c2006
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (182 p.)
ISBN:0826265685
9780826216663
9780826265685

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