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Title Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / Aroop Mangalik, MD.
Author Mangalik, Aroop, 1935- author.
Publisher Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description xiv, 260 pages ; 24 cm
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 EI-Adult Collection  616.044 MAN Nearby on shelf  30626003130404 09-08-17  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 and proceed toward comfort.
Subject Chronically ill -- Care.
Chronically ill -- Family relationships.
Chronically ill -- Treatment.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Terminally ill -- Psychology.
Terminally ill -- Family relationships.
Terminal care.
Palliative treatment.
Physician and patient.
Medical ethics.
ISBN 9781442272804
1442272805