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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780449222904 ISBN: 044922290X Label: Fawcett Manufacturer: Fawcett Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: March 02, 1994 Publisher: Fawcett Release Date: March 02, 1994 Studio: Fawcett Related Items:
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 Rating: - The humanity of doctors in an often inhumane fieldAuthor Lisa Belkin did her research, in this riveting book. Many who enter the field of medicine do care about helping people; doctors do care about their patients and are frustrated by health insurance, legal concerns and concerns for the patient and their families. Based in a hospital in Houston, where Belkin did her research, you will not put down this book. You will feel new empathy for doctors who agonize over the end of life issues with patients and their families. ... Read More Rating: - Good readI enjoyed the book. Makes you think about ethics a bit and the reality of financial constraints on the practice of medicine. Rating: - Great MaterialThis book will keep you wanting to turn the page and make it hard to put down the book. This is a great explanation of real life situations that patients and hospitals face everyday. Some of the situations that are hard for some people to understand why hospitals are concerned with matters like money and certain treatments of patients can be explained. Rating: - Inside Texas Medical Center...Lisa Belkin has created an amazing book here - she definitely did her research. The book consists of a few case studies of patients who pose ethical dilemas. Belkin takes you inside meetings of the ethics committee at the hospital, she takes you to the patient's bedside to see what the patient actually wants. Some of the patients she follows are a young kid who has been hospitalized for 15 years with a terminal condition, beating all odds by staying alive that long, several premature babies, and ... Read More Rating: - You may laugh or may cry, but you won't put this book downDespite the major advances in knowledge, skills, and technology in the field of medicine, this book shows that ultimately life and death fall back on the human touch. Following the workings of an Ethics Committee in a major urban hospital over several months, Belkin clearly shows that medicine continues to be as much an art as a science and in many cases there are no "right" answers, even when decisions can affect whether a patient lives or dies. This is not a dry, mechanical review of how ... Read More 
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