Dealing With Doctors, Denial, and Death - A Guide to Living Well With Serious Illness

Informationen zum Autor Aroop Mangalik, MD is a retired oncologist and an ethicist. He has been an active clinician for many years and continues to teach ethics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and at the University of New Mexico School of Law. He has worked for many years to reduce unnecessary and unwanted treatments, especially for patients in advanced stages of their diseases. He has several publications in peer-reviewed medical journals pertaining to his work in the laboratory and in clinical trials. Klappentext This guide for patients facing serious illnesses for which the path to wellness is unclear explains some of the influences that may prompt physicians to recommend futile treatments and describes specific ways of obtaining information to get a clear idea of all available options. Zusammenfassung This guide for patients facing serious illnesses for which the path to wellness is unclear explains some of the influences that may prompt physicians to recommend futile treatments and describes specific ways of obtaining information to get a clear idea of all available options. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction1: Dealing with the Inevitability of Death2: Communication, Hope and Honesty3: Religion, Healing and Death4: Patient Autonomy and Medical Expertise: How to Find a Balance5: Planning for Your Life, Illness and Death6: Do No Harm7: Statistics: They Help and They Fool8: Why Doctors Over-Treat: Training and Mindset9: Why Doctors Over-Treat: Pressure from Society and the Medical Establishment10: Why Doctors Over-Treat: Flaws in the Way They Deal with Patients11: When Doctors Say "No"12: Why Patients Demand Unrealistic Treatments13: How to Reduce Over-Treatment14: How to Proceed toward Comfort

Product details

• Authors: Aroop Mangalik, Mangalik Aroop
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781442272804
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7280-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SELF-HELP / Aging, Coping with death & bereavement, Family & relationships, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Coping with old age, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, Coping with / advice about ageing, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement