Lessons in mortality : doctors and patients struggling together / Allen B. Weisse.
"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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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.