Wrong Medicine : Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Are doctors supposed to be doing this?
- Why it is hard to say no
- Why we must say no
- Families who say, "do everything!"
- Futility and rationing
- Medical futility in a litigious society
- Ethical implications of medical futility
- The way it is now/the way it ought to be : for patients
- The way it is now/the way it ought to be : for health professionals
- The high points : medical futility
- Medical futility : where do we stand now?


