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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter. Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand-as a child, as a doctor, as a human being-how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Clarke, Rachel (Physician)
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Physicians -- England -- Biography.
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Terminal care.
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Hospice care.
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Palliative treatment.
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Clarke, Rachel.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781250772589 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1250772583 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13896314 |
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