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A midwife through the dying process
 — stories of healing and hard choices at the end of of life
Author(s)Timothy E Quill
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996
Pages239 pp
SourceJohns Hopkins University Press, 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21218-4319 USA.
KeywordsTerminal care ; Death ; Patients ; Medical care ; Doctors ; Case studies ; United States of America.
AnnotationThe author explores questions faced daily by patients, families and their doctors in confronting terminal illness and choosing between aggressive medical therapy and hospice-oriented approaches emphasising quality of life. He gives accounts of the lives and deaths of nine very different patients whom he cared for, and the decisions they made, circumscribed by their medical condition. He discusses doctors' obligations to attend to patients' deaths as much as their lives; this includes physician assisted death and examples of advance directives (living wills).
Accession NumberCPA-970423204 B
ClassmarkLV: CW: LF: LK: QT2: 69P: 7T

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