Bibliograph

The good doctor, a father, a son, and the evolution of medical ethics, Barron H. Lerner, MD

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The good doctor, a father, a son, and the evolution of medical ethics, Barron H. Lerner, MD

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

collective biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The good doctor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Barron H. Lerner, MD

Sub title

a father, a son, and the evolution of medical ethics

Summary

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 physician and 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 though CPR 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

Table Of Contents

The first Dr. Lerner -- Super doctor -- Illness hits home -- The second Dr. Lerner -- Forging my own path -- Treating the whole patient -- Family practitioner -- Growing disillusionment -- Slowing down -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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