Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / Aroop Mangalik, MD.
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]Description: xiv, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781442272804 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 616/.044 23
- RC108 .M366 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index.
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 -- How to proceed toward comfort.