Best Care Possible A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

Name: Best Care Possible A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
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ISBN: 9781583335123

ISBN-10: 1583335129

ISBN-13: 9781583335123

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Authors: Ira Byock

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A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home—which hospice care provides—many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a philosophy to “fight disease and illness at all cost.”Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the country, argues that how we die represents a national crisis today. To ensure the best possible elder care, Dr. Byock explains we must not only remake our healthcare system but also move…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



The Best Care Possible



The Best Care Possible



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



Palliative Care: Completing the Therapeutic Continuum



Palliative Care-A Surprising New Specialty (Hint: It's Not Just for Dying)



Morbidity and Mortality



Real Doctoring for the Twenty-first Century



What Are Doctors For?



The Busy Day That Sharon Died



Transforming Medicine and Society



Fixing Health Care



Imagining a Care-Full Society



Standing on Common High Ground


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index