The best care possible : a physician's quest to transform care through the end of life / Ira Byock.
Byock, Ira.
2013
R726.8 .B96 2013 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title
The best care possible : a physician's quest to transform care through the end of life / Ira Byock.
Author
Byock, Ira.
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
ISBN
9781583335123 paperback
1583335129 paperback
Publication Details
New York : Avery/Penguin Group (USA), 2013.
Language
English
Description
320 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
R726.8 .B96 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.02/9
Summary
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care examines an important and controversial ethical issue in his quest to transform care through the end of life.
Note
Copyright date 2012.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Pt. 1. The best care possible. The best care possible
pt. 2. Life-and-death decisions. Between Scylla and Charybdis, a rock and a hard place, and the Devil and the deep blue sea ; Balancing acts: weighing potential benefits against risks and burdens
pt. 3. Palliative care: completing the therapeutic continuum. Palliative care: a surprising new specialty (hint: it's not just for dying) ; Morbidity and mortality
pt. 4. Real doctoring for the twenty-first century. What are doctors for? ; The busy day that Sharon died
pt. 5. Transforming medicine and society. Fixing health care ; Imagining a care-full society ; Standing on common high ground.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export