Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measures, and the Patient with a Serious Il

Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measures, and the Patient with a Serious Illness, Sixth Edition, is a guide for helping patients and families with end-of-life decisions.<BR> <BR>–BOOK TOPICS INCLUDE–<BR> <BR>- Considering the goals of medical care before making healthcare decisions<BR> <BR>- Treatments such as CPR, feeding tubes, dialysis, pacemakers, implanted defibrillators, hospitalization, palliative care, and hospice care as they apply to patients with a serious illness<BR> <BR>- The emotional and spiritual concerns at the end of life for people of any or no faith tradition; the journey at the final stages of life is framed as a journey of letting go and letting be<BR> <BR>Dr. Ira Byock, founder and chief medical officer of the Providence Institute for Human Caring and author of
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