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by Ira Byock
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues on his quest to transform care through the end of life. Dr. Byock explains that to ensure the best possible care, the healthcare system must be remade.
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A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home—which hospice care provides—many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a philosophy to “fight disease and illness at all cost.”
Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the country, argues that how we die represents a national crisis today. To ensure the best possible elder care, Dr. Byock explains we must not only remake our healthcare system but also move beyond our cultural aversion to thinking about death. The Best Care Possible is a compelling meditation on medicine and ethics told through page-turning life-or-death medical drama. It has the power to lead a new national conversation.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home—which hospice care provides—many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a philosophy to “fight disease and illness at all cost.”
Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the country, argues that how we die represents a national crisis today. To ensure the best possible elder care, Dr. Byock explains we must not only remake our healthcare system but also move beyond our cultural aversion to thinking about death. The Best Care Possible is a compelling meditation on medicine and ethics told through page-turning life-or-death medical drama. It has the power to lead a new national conversation.
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- Title The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
- Author Ira Byock
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2013-03-05
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781583335123 / 1583335129
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Quality of life - United States, Terminal care - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.029
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