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Knocking on Heaven's Door The Path to a Better Way of Death

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ISBN-10: 1451641982

ISBN-13: 9781451641981

Edition: N/A

Authors: Katy Butler

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“A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become” (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review).This bestselling memoir—hailed a “triumph” by The New York Times—ponders the “Good Death” and the forces within medicine that stand in its way. Award-winning journalist Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her aging parents when the call came: her beloved seventy-nine-year-old father had suffered a crippling stroke. Katy and her mother joined the more than 28 million Americans who are shepherding loved ones through their final declines. Doctors outfitted her father with a…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 6/10/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English