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Wrong Medicine:

Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment 2ed
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Too often, patients in American hospitals are subjected to painful, expensive, and futile treatments because of a physician's notion of medical duty or a family's demands. Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker renew their call for common sense and realistic expectations in medicine in this revised and updated edition of Wrong Medicine.Written by a physician and a philosopher -- both internationally recognized experts in medical ethics -- Wrong Medicine addresses key topics that have occupied the media and the courts for the past several decades, including the wrenching Terry Schiavo case. The book combines clear descriptions of ethical principles with real clinical stories to discuss the medical, legal, and political issues that confront doctors today as they seek to provide the best medical care to critically ill patients. The authors have added two chapters that outline theoretical, legislative, judicial, and clinical developments since the first edition. Based 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.

Preface 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?
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