TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mangalik,Aroop
TI  - Dealing with doctors, denial, and death: a guide to living well with serious illness 
SN  - 9781442272804 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - RC108 .M366 2017
U1  - 616/.044 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Chronically ill
KW  - Care
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Physician and patient
KW  - Medical ethics
N1  - 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
ER  -