Dealing with doctors, denial, and death
Subtitle: a guide to living well with serious illness
By: Aroop Mangalik
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781442272804
Subjects: Treatment; Chronically ill; Physician and patient; Medical ethics; Family relationships; Care
Description: 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. --Publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dealing with the inevitability of death; title: Communication, hope and honesty; title: Religion, healing and death; title: Patient autonomy and medical expertise: how to find a balance; title: Planning for your life, illness and death; title: Do no harm; title: Statistics: they help and they fool; title: Why doctors over-treat: training and mind-set; title: Why doctors over-treat: pressure from society and the medical establishment; title: Why doctors over-treat: flaws in the way they deal with patients; title: When doctors say 'no'; title: Consequences of demanding unrealistic treatments; title: How to reduce over-treatment and proceed toward comfort.