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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Main Author: Weisse, Allen B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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