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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Volandes, Angelo, 1971-     Subjects     Advance directives (Medical care)     Do-not-resuscitate orders.     Right to die.     Terminal care.     Palliative treatment.     Patient advocacy.     Physician and patient.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Volandes, Angelo, 1971-       by title:      The conversation : a...       by call number:      616.029 V899c     Search the Web     Volandes, Angelo, 1971-     Advance directives (Medical care)     Do-not-resuscitate orders.     Right to die.     Terminal care.     Palliative treatment.     Patient advocacy.     Physician and patient.       MARC Display

The conversation : a revolutionary plan for end-of-life care / Angelo E. Volandes, M.D. by Volandes, Angelo, 1971- Bloomsbury, 2015. Call #: 616.029 V899c Subjects Advance directives (Medical care)   Do-not-resuscitate orders.   Right to die.   Terminal care.   Palliative treatment.   Patient advocacy.   Physician and patient. ISBN:  9781620408544 (hc.) 1620408546 (hc.) Edition:  First U.S. edition. Description:  220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index. Contents:  Death in America -- My medical odyssey -- "Do everything" -- "We never kept secrets from each other" -- "Where do we go from here?" -- "If a picture is worth a thousand words-- " -- Coming home -- "No one ever asked me what I wanted" -- Appendices. I, Starting the conversation (for patients) ; II, Taking control and completing your advance directives ; III, Starting the conversation (for families). Summary:  "There is an unspoken dark side of modern medicine: keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of us die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question 'How do you want to live?' must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors explain options--including the choice to forego countless medical interventions that are often of little benefit--then patients can tell doctors how they wish to spend the remainder of their lives. Angelo Volandes is a physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital."--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.029 V899c Adult books Shelving Cart Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 616.029 V899c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.029 V899c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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