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Lessons in mortality : doctors and patients struggling together /

"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 ind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weisse, Allen B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Lance Armstrong and me
  • The crock
  • Devotion
  • The iron man
  • Waste
  • Marking time at Hillcrest Home
  • The case of the baffling boy : chapter one
  • Eddy
  • Smart ass
  • Victims all
  • The end of the road
  • Modern medicine
  • The survivor
  • A man what am
  • Other faces of AIDS
  • On dying with dignity--and a diagnosis
  • The gift
  • Time (overdue) for a change
  • Stroke
  • A letter.