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  • Mangalik, Aroop, 1935- author.
     
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  • Chronically ill -- Family relationships.
     
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  • Chronically ill -- Treatment.
     
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  • Physician and patient.
     
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  • Medical ethics.
     
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    Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / Aroop Mangalik.
    by Mangalik, Aroop, 1935- author.
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    Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, c2017.
    Subjects
  • Chronically ill -- Family relationships.
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  • Chronically ill -- Treatment.
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  • Physician and patient.
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  • Medical ethics.
  • ISBN: 
    9781442272804 (cloth : alk. paper) :
    1442272805 (cloth : alk. paper)
    Description: 
    xiv, 260 pages ; 24 cm
    Contents: 
    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.
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    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.
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    Ewa Beach P/S LibraryAdult Nonfiction616.044 MaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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    Hilo Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction616.044 MangalikChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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