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• Title:Lessons in mortality : doctors and patients struggling together / Allen B. Weisse.
  
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• Author/Creator:Weisse, Allen B.
  
• Published/Created:Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W62 .W454 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Critically ill--Psychology.
  Critically ill--Conduct of life.
  Physician and patient.
  Health behavior.
  
• Medical Subjects: Attitude to Death--Personal Narratives.
  Physician-Patient Relations--Personal Narratives.
  Death--Personal Narratives.
  Physician's Practice Patterns--Personal Narratives.
  Sick Role--Personal Narratives.
  
• Description:182 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:"Writing frankly, Weisse discusses how doctors and patients of cancer, heart disease, stroke, infectious disease, AIDS, and other dire diagnoses deal with illness in the twenty-first century, considering, in turn, how such factors as specialization, rising costs, managed care, the insurance industry, and litigation has changed the practice of medicine"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:0826216668 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  9780826216663 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction
  2. Lance Armstrong and me
  3. crock
  4. Devotion
  5. iron man
  6. Waste
  7. Marking time at Hillcrest home
  8. case of the baffling boy : chapter one
  9. Eddy
  10. Smart ass
  11. Victims all
  12. end of the road
  13. Modern medicine
  14. survivor
  15. man what am
  16. Other faces of AIDS
  17. On dying with dignity - and a diagnosis
  18. gift
  19. Time (overdue) for a change
  20. Stroke
  21. letter.