Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical SystemIn Last Rights, award-winning journalist Stephen P. Kiernan shows how patients and families can regain control of the dying process, creating familial intimacy like never before. |
Contents
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A Baby and a Basketball Game | 18 |
A Dog Is Better Than a Pill | 23 |
So Much Potential | 47 |
NOT AN EMERGENCY | 49 |
What Is a Crisis? | 51 |
Possible Paths | 55 |
No One in Charge | 138 |
The Economics of Dying | 152 |
The Most Important Time | 159 |
SMELLING THE ROSES | 177 |
Her Wishes Were Totally Ignored | 179 |
The Desire for Control | 183 |
Dreams Coming True | 191 |
The Final Caress | 207 |
Still Alive | 65 |
Mysteries of Life | 70 |
Two Visions | 72 |
HEAL THYSELF | 75 |
Doctors Beginnings | 77 |
Take Five Years | 82 |
A Piece of Cake | 88 |
This Was Medicine | 95 |
Maybe I Can Make You Laugh | 103 |
Barriers to Change | 109 |
MEDICINE AND LOVE ARE NOT THE SAME THING | 125 |
One Experience | 127 |
Families as Problems | 130 |
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Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System Stephen P. Kiernan Limited preview - 2006 |
Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System Stephen P. Kiernan No preview available - 2007 |