Death and Dignity

Making Choices and Taking Charge

By: Timothy E. Quill

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Paperback | 1 May 1994 | Edition Number 1

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This book looks squarely at how patients can make crucial decisions and take charge of the end of their lives. This book is a resource for anyone who fears unnecessary suffering and excessive medical intervention at that point. It helps readers think through and then complete advance directives, and also to take a more active role when they or a family member becomes terminally ill. Through real-life stories and his own experience, Dr. Quill explores what measures a patient can choose to prolong life and how to forgo such measures if they begin to extend a painful death, choosing instead approaches such as comfort care which emphasize quality more than quantity of life. Finally, Dr. Quill speaks out on physician-assisted suicide and why he helped a long-term patient of his, stricken with leukemia, to take her life when her suffering became intolerable. He asks for regulation, rather than denial, knowing that many patients and doctors ofen face this question at times of crisis.

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A bold approach to medicine.--Gary C. Rummier "Arizona Daily Star"

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Preface: Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making (reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine)	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 17
Introduction	p. 19
Early Brushes with Death: Formative Experiences as a Resident and Grandson	p. 29
The Hippocratic Oath and the Care of the Dying: Reconsidering Medicine's Goals and Values	p. 43
Death or Chi-Chi?: The Burdens of Aggressive Medical Treatment	p. 57
Comfort Care: A Humane Alternative	p. 76
The Limitations of Comfort Care: Double Effects, Double Binds, and Double Standards	p. 98
Defining Moments: Compassion and Conflicting Responsibilities	p. 121
Public Policy: Exploring a Wider Range of Options for the Dying	p. 138
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Potential Clinical Criteria	p. 155
Background for Advance Directives: What Can Happen If I Lose Mental Capacity in the Future?	p. 176
Advance Directives: Living Will or Health Care Proxy?	p. 189
Challenges and Final Thoughts	p. 203
Appendix Advance Directives: Definitions, Questions and Answers, Sample Forms	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 251
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