When Treatment Fails

Author: David J. Bearison
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195156129
Category: Medical

When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children

Medical care of the terminally ill is one of the most emotionally fraught and controversial issues before the public today. Download When Treatment Fails medical books for free.
As medicine advances and technologies develop, end-of-life care becomes more individualized and uncertain, guided less by science and more by values and beliefs. The crux of the controversy is when to withhold or withdraw curative treatments--when is enough, enough?
Political debates rage about when treatment is no longer effective; difficult cases are contested in courts; and the media devour the most sensational aspects of end-of-life care. In all this excitement and controversy, what is sadly overlooked is the extreme pressure that care of the terminally ill puts on medical staff as they deal with patients and Get When Treatment Fails our bestseller medical books.

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As medicine advances and technologies develop, end-of-life care becomes more individualized and uncertain, guided less by science and more by values and beliefs In all this excitement and controversy, what is sadly overlooked is the extreme pressure that care of the terminally ill puts on medical staff as they deal with patients and

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