Dealing with doctors, denial, and death : a guide to living well with serious illness / Aroop Mangalik, MD.

Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a medical diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over-treatment that may or may not extend life but almost always da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mangalik, Aroop, 1935- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Subjects:	Chronically ill > Care. Chronically ill > Family relationships. Chronically ill > Treatment. Physician and patient. Medical ethics. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement. MEDICAL > Caregiving. MEDICAL > Terminal Care. SELF-HELP > Aging. SELF-HELP > Death, Grief, Bereavement. Chronic Disease. Ethics, Medical. Family Relations. Physician-Patient Relations. Nonfiction.
Genre:	Nonfiction.
Physical Description:	xiv, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Dealing with the inevitability of death
Communication, hope and honesty
Religion, healing and death
Patient autonomy and medical expertise: how to find a balance
Planning for your life, illness and death
Do no harm
Statistics: they help and they fool
Why doctors over-treat: training and mindset
Why doctors over-treat: pressure from society and the medical establishment
Why doctors over-treat: flaws in the way they deal with patients
When doctors say 'no'
Consequences of demanding unrealistic treatments
How to reduce over-treatment and proceed toward comfort.