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

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.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1: Dealing with the Inevitability of Death
2: Communication, Hope and Honesty
3: Religion, Healing and Death
4: Patient Autonomy and Medical Expertise: How to Find a Balance
5: Planning for Your Life, Illness and Death
6: Do No Harm
7: Statistics: They Help and They Fool
8: Why Doctors Over-Treat: Training and Mindset
9: Why Doctors Over-Treat: Pressure from Society and the Medical Establishment
10: Why Doctors Over-Treat: Flaws in the Way They Deal with Patients
11: When Doctors Say "No"
12: Why Patients Demand Unrealistic Treatments
13: How to Reduce Over-Treatment
14: How to Proceed toward Comfort

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Aroop Mangalik, Mangalik Aroop
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781538123386
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2338-6
• 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