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Lessons in mortality [electronic resource] : doctors and patients struggling together / Allen B. Weisse.

By: Weisse, Allen B.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006Description: 182 p. ; 22 cm.Subject(s): Critically ill -- Psychology | Critically ill -- Conduct of life | Physician and patient | Health behaviorGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 616 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.