Guarded Prognosis: A Doctor and His Patients Talk About Chronic Disease and How to Cope With It

ISBN: 9780809053452

ISBN10: 0809053454

Published: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Publish Date: 1998-06-01 Pages: 288

Binding: Hardcover Dimensions: 1.01 L x 6.31 W x 9.31 H

Description: When individual and broad social values clash, who should determine the course of action?

An important new voice, Michael Lockshin, M.D., speaks out on health care in America today. A noted physician with broad experience in treating long-term, incurable patients, Lockshin shows exactly how our health-care system could be more efficient, less costly, and more humane.