Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical SystemThorndike Press, 2007 - 649 páginas Explores the dichotomy between how patients want to live the end of their lives and the medical establishment's extreme interventions, performed at immense cost and with little regard to pain, human comfort, or the wishes of family and patients. |
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... physical dwindling , fatigue , and weight loss , always with the understanding of where it will all end . This path can be toughest for patients when the illness diminishes physical func- tion but not mental acuity . Lou Gehrig's ...
... physical dwindling , fatigue , and weight loss , always with the understanding of where it will all end . This path can be toughest for patients when the illness diminishes physical func- tion but not mental acuity . Lou Gehrig's ...
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... physical one , only consider pain . A man with terminal colon cancer has acute body discomfort , which narcotics can vanquish . The same man , with an estranged son , endures a kind of suffering that is far less easily assuaged . The ...
... physical one , only consider pain . A man with terminal colon cancer has acute body discomfort , which narcotics can vanquish . The same man , with an estranged son , endures a kind of suffering that is far less easily assuaged . The ...
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... physi- cians cannot do what they do not know . Inadequate knowledge is a key barrier to good care at the end of life ... physical and emotional needs of people at the end of their lives is insufficient . The problem is one of 194.
... physi- cians cannot do what they do not know . Inadequate knowledge is a key barrier to good care at the end of life ... physical and emotional needs of people at the end of their lives is insufficient . The problem is one of 194.
Índice
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
THE IMPRINT A BODY MAKES | 33 |
Last Hours | 35 |
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