Lessons in mortality
Subtitle: doctors and patients struggling together
By: Allen B. Weisse.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbia, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780826216663
Description: "Writing frankly, Weisse discusses how doctors and patients of cancer, heart disease, stroke, infectious disease, AIDS, and other dire diagnoses deal with illness in the twenty-first century, considering, in turn, how such factors as specialization, rising costs, managed care, the insurance industry, and litigation has changed the practice of medicine"--Provided by publisher.