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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weisse, Allen B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Critically ill > Psychology.
Critically ill > Conduct of life.
Physician and patient.
Health behavior.
Attitude to Death > Personal Narratives.
Physician-Patient Relations > Personal Narratives.
Death > Personal Narratives.
Physician's Practice Patterns > Personal Narratives.
Sick Role > Personal Narratives.
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Summary:"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 industry, and litigation has changed the practice of medicine"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:182 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0826216668 (hard cover : alk. paper)