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Lessons in mortality : doctors and patients struggling together / Allen B. Weisse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisse, Allen B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critically ill--Psychology.
- Critically ill.
- Critically ill--Conduct of life.
- Physician and patient.
- Health behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6568-5
- OCLC:
- 228173790
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