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Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneiderman, L. J.
Other Authors: Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Medical Futility.
Ethics, Medical.
Medicine > Decision making.
Surgery, Unnecessary.
Medical ethics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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?