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Title: AMA and a Hospital Focus
Review: I have been meaning to read this title for ages. The new ed is pretty much the book from the 90's.Nuland can't be anything but what he is - a surgeon and physician. He has trouble distancing himself from the medical end of life, i.e. you are in a hospital and they are going to do everything in their power/your money to keep you alive. There are times when he does stray from htese roots, but always seems to migrate back to them. Mention is made of hospices and the right to die, but only in passing. Assisted suicide is dismissed, as not an option. He only alludes to having a family physician who is willing to ease you through death.The message I get from him, is that the proper thing is to trust in the AMA even though, they cannot do anything about your certain death, the pain, suffering and costs, it is unfortunate, but just part of the process.Not a humanistic view of death.
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