Product DescriptionLutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois. Concise text for physician/ethicists on how to do ethics consultations in the hospital, clinic, nursing home, or office setting. Uses case studies. DNLM: Ethics, Medical.
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Still the Best How-To-Do-It Bioethics Consultation Book
La Puma and Schiedermayer distill their case experience of more than 700 individual consults--both one-on-one and in committee--into a step-by-step practical approach to resolving ethical dilemmas at the patient's side, or at least, with the clinicians and significant others.
I learned a lot from Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide--how to speak with patients in a caring way without creating or tapping into adversity; how to hold family meetings to gather information, not just achieve consensus; what to look for in medical records and how to write progress notes; and maybe most of all, what to do in the culture of the hospital and of medicine to work within it, to help achieve patient goals.
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