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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Health and medical wants: your personal health care system -- Health and medical wishes: providers, facilities, and programs -- Health and medical wills: your medical conditions -- Personal wants: doctors and dialogue -- Personal wishes: screening and counseling -- Personal wills: drugs, diets, and devices -- Medical-legal wants: understanding interventions -- Medical-legal wishes: defining capacity, consciousness, and contingencies -- Medical-legal wills: directives, definitions, and discussions -- Selfless contribution wants: donating time, tissue, and treatment data -- Selfless contribution wishes: individual purpose, production, and protection -- Selfless contribution wills: donation requirements, responsibilities, and rights -- Estate planning wants: purpose, preparation, and protection -- Estate planning wishes: caring for family, friends, and foundations -- Estate planning wills: testaments, trusts, and other tools -- Legacy wants: providing ideas, intentions, and instructions -- Legacy wishes: assisting family, friends, and future generations to remember -- Legacy wills: your safety, your rights, and your records. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Language |
English. |
| Summary |
A terminal diagnosis ... a life-threatening disease ... recognition of one's own mortality ... or simply planning ahead. All of these lead individuals to contemplate difficult end-of-life decisions. But, when they do, they find themselves confused, desperately seeking guidance: about living wills, health care proxies, and their own care, wishes, and affairs. Dr. Shawn D. Glisson and Wynne A. Whitman help people face these issues every day -- Glisson as a respected oncologist, Whitman as an experienced estate lawyer. Now, they've come together to give readers all the tools they need to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. Glisson and Whitman help you answer questions like: How can I make sure I get the best possible care to fight my disease? How do I choose a health care representative to make decisions in light of continuing medical advances? How do I prepare a living will that accurately expresses my views on dying? How do I decide which care regimen is right for me? Will alternative therapies help me? What do I need to know about hospice care? Should I donate my organs, and if so, how? How do I communicate my wishes regarding my possessions? What's the best way to plan my estate and minimize my taxes? Above all, how do I make sure my wishes are followed? This book doesn't offer "one size fits all" answers. It provides the compassionate, up-to-date, plain-English guidance you need to decide for yourself ... and stay in control of your life |
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Medical care -- Miscellanea.
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Self-care, Health.
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Medicine, Popular.
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Medical care -- Law and legislation.
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Patient participation.
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Physician and patient.
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Health behavior.
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Terminally ill.
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Patient Participation |
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Physician-Patient Relations |
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Health Behavior |
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Advance Care Planning |
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Living Wills |
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Terminally Ill |
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Self Care |
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Autothérapie. |
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Médecine -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation. |
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Participation des patients. |
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Relations médecin-patient. |
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Habitudes sanitaires. |
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Testament biologique. |
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Malades en phase terminale. |
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Soins médicaux -- Miscellanées. |
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terminally ill. |
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Medical care -- Miscellanea. |
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Self-care, Health. |
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Medicine, Popular. |
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Medical care -- Law and legislation. |
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Terminally ill |
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Physician and patient |
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Patient participation |
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Health behavior |
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Medical care |
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Medical care -- Law and legislation |
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Medicine, Popular |
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Self-care, Health |
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Popular Work |
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miscellanies.
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Miscellanées.
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| Added Author |
Glisson, Shawn D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Whitman, Wynne A. Wants, wishes, and wills. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Financial Times Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006101571 (OCoLC)77270825 |
| ISBN |
9780131568983 |
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0131568981 |
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0132354276 |
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9780132354271 |
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