Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker.
Schneiderman, L. J.; Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld.
2011
R724 .S3936 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker.
Author Schneiderman, L. J.
Edition 2nd ed.
ISBN 9780801898501
0801898501
9780801898518 (paperback)
080189851X (paperback)
Publication Details Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xi, 230 p. ; 24 cm
Call Number R724 .S3936 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 610.69/6
Summary Too often, patients in American hospitals are subjected to painful, expensive, and futile treatments because of a physician's notion of medical duty or a family's demands. Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker renew their call for common sense and realistic expectations in medicine .
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld.
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