Description
Book SynopsisBased on the latest empirical research, Wrong Medicine continues to guide a broad range of health care professionals through the challenges of providing humane end-of-life care.
Trade Review"A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem - one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution." (New England Journal of Medicine) "A lucid and important contribution to the field that moves us toward both a more scientific and a more humane approach to making treatment decisions at the end of life." (Health Affairs)"
Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Are Doctors Supposed to Be Doing This?
2. Why It Is Hard to Say No
3. Why We Must Say No
4. Families Who Say, "Do Everything!"
5. Futility and Rationing
6. Medical Futility in a Litigious Society
7. Ethical Implications of Medical Futility
8. The Way It Is Now / The Way It Ought to Be: For Patients
9. The Way It Is Now / The Way It Ought to Be: For Health Professionals
10. The High Points: Medical Futility
11. Medical Futility: Where Do We Stand Now?
Notes
Index
