Three Patients - International Perspective on Intensive Care at the End of Life
Contributors: David W. Crippen (Editor); Jack K. Kilcullen (Editor); David F. Kelly (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780792376712
Subjects: Intensive Care Medicine; Medical ethics; Euthanasia; Medical; Medical / Nursing; USA; Health Care Delivery; Ethics; Medical / Critical Care; Medical / Ethics; Medical : Health Care Delivery; Critical Care; Right to die; Critical care medicine; Cross-cultural studies
First sentence: When I began consulting at a major tertiary medical center in September 1989 during a sabbatical year, I had a number of anticipations about what I would find, some explicit and many implicit.