Planning for Uncertainty: A Guide to Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for Health Care - Brossura

Doukas, David John; Reichel, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0801846714 ISBN 13: 9780801846717

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

Riassunto

Most of us are uncomfortable with thoughts of our own death or serious illness- and so we put off making decisions that could help ensure that the health care we receive as we are dying is managed according to our preferences and personal values. Using a question-and-answer format, this book explains why it is important to decide now what you want and do not want at the end of your life- and it shows you how to document those preferences and have them carried out.

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Recensione:

"A helpful book for planning ahead... The authors are two U.S. family physicians who have done an admirable job of putting together some cogent advice for persons planning their health care direction and for the health professionals who might be advising them... Very clear descriptions are presented for the non-professional reader about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilators, dialysis, enteral and parenteral nutrition, intravenous medication and hydration, autopsy, and organ donation. Hospice care is nicely outlined." -- Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

L'autore:

David John Doukas, M.D., is assistant professor in the department of family practice at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the ethics committee at the Chelsea Community Hospital in Chelsea, Michigan. William Reichel, M.D., is director of the department of geriatrics and aging services at Boston Evening Medical Center, clinical professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine, and adjunct professor of family medicine at Brown University.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0801846714
• ISBN 13: 9780801846717
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168