Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curi... by Jacob M. Appel

(This book may contain a small, black sharpie mark on the bottom edge, so that it can't be returned to a different wholesaler. Who Says You’re Dead: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned We rated this book: 23.95 Our notions of the treatment of human life, medical technological, and prevailing laws have presented ethical dilemmas to healthcare givers, healthcare recipients, and their families. There are no easy answers in this book, just dozens of fascinating questions, leading you to wonder, what would you do? The advent of highly advanced technology and increased enforcement of privacy laws, has increased the likelihood of facing ethical dilemmas in medicine. Most of the decisions are for those in the health care profession, but its also good for us potential patients, to think about these in moments of calm, rather than at time of crisis (Hint, its important to have a living will/advanced directive). Our notions of the treatment of human life, medical technological, and prevailing laws have presented ethical dilemmas to healthcare givers, healthcare recipients, and their families.

Appel shares short, real-life case studies and lays out the considerations doctors face when making difficult, often life-and-death decisions. Who Says Youre Dead Medical & Ethical Dilemmas For The Curious & Concerned Who Says Youre Dead Medical & Ethical Dilemmas For The Curious & Concerned. This book contains 79 hypothetical cases, that will really leave you thinking. A thought-provoking tour of a multitude of ethical questions faced by doctors today, tackling issues that we sometimes see in the news or on medical dramas-like physician-assisted suicide, or the title's question of who decides when to take a patient off life support. What do you do when it turns out someone isn't biologically related to one of their parents? Can you force someone to go to rehab, or to eat when they're on a hunger strike? Should you disclose a Presidential candidate's psychiatric history of dangerous and erratic behavior? Should celebrities get bumped to the top of the organ donor list? Dr.

Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curi... by Jacob M. Appel