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The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
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- 9780807033401
- UPC
- 9780807033401
- ISBN
- 9780807033401
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- Format
- Hardback, 240 pages
- Book Title
- The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolutio
- Item Height
- 2.8 cm
- Item Length
- 22.9 cm
- Item Weight
- 0.5 kg
- Item Width
- 15.5 cm
- Language
- Eng
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
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The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care As a practicing physicianand longtime member of his hospital s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all.But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage patient who had stopped breathing, preventing his colleagues from performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, even thoughCPR was the ethically and legally accepted thing to do. Over the next few years, the senior Dr. Lerner tried to speed the deaths of his seriously ill mother and mother-in-law to spare them further suffering. These stories angered and alarmed the younger Dr. Lerner an internist, historian of medicine, and bioethicist who had rejected physician-based paternalism in favor of informed consent and patient automy. The Good Doctor is a fascinating and moving account of how Dr. Lerner came to terms with two very different images of his father: a revered clinician, teacher, and researcher who always put his patients first, but also a physician willing to play God, opposing the very revolution in patients' rights that his son was studying and teaching to his own medical students. But the elder Dr. Lerner s journals, which he had kept for decades, showed the son how the father s outdated paternalism had grown out of a fierce devotion to patient-centered medicine, which was rapidly disappearing. And they raised questions: Are paternalistic doctors just relics, or should their expertise be used to overrule patients and families that makeill-advised choices?Does the growing use of personalized medicine in which specific interventions may be best for specific patients change the calculus between automy and paternalism? And how can we best use techlogies that were invented to save lives but w too often prolong death? In an era of high-techlogy medicine, spiraling costs, and health-care reform, these questions could t be more relevant. As his father slowly died of Parkinson s disease, Barron Lerner faced these questions both personally and professionally.He found himself being pulledinto his dad s medical care, even though he had criticized his father for making medical decisions for his relatives.Did playing God at least in some situations actually make sense? Did doctors sometimes kw best ? A timely and compelling story of one family s engagement with medicine over the last half century, The Good Doctor is an important book for those who treat illness and those who struggle to overcome it.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807033405
ISBN-13
9780807033401
eBay Product ID (ePID)
193996097
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499g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Boston, Ma
Spine
28mm
Out-Of-Print Date
02/03/2016
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Date of Publication
20/05/2014
Subject
Medicine: General
Imprint
Beacon Press
Genre
Medicine: General
Country of Publication
United States
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