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Author: Stephen P. Kiernan

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Keywords: Medical, major companies

Rubric: Pharmacology review books

ISBN: 0312342241

"This country is fairly crowded with doctors, families, and patients - all possessed of good intentions - failing to achieve the simple goal of allowing people to die with dignity and grace."In the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly and brutally: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. In The Most Important Time In Your Life, Stephen Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the end of life - pain free, functioning mentally and physically, surrounded by family and friends - and how the medical system continues to treat the dying - with extreme interventions…

When asked, the overwhelming percentage of people thinking about their own deaths say that they want to die at home, either alone or with family around and without pain. About 1200 people a day make… It's simple; read this book. Why? Because with a mixture of thorough investigation and thoughtful story-telling, Stephen Kiernan makes his topic, how our present day medical culture approaches the end…

Pharmacology review books: Crash Course (US): Musculoskeletal System: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Crash Course), Manual of Pulmonary Function Testing, Appleton Lange Outline Review for the Physician Assistant Examination, An Introduction to Human Molecular Genetics: Mechanisms of Inherited Diseases