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These stories explore a wide and complicated range of experiences—a doctor is pressured into sending a patient home from the emergency room but later must face his decision when the patient suddenly dies; a physician deals with the doubt brought on by a malpractice lawsuit and must come to terms with the fact that even doctors are fallible and human; a woman fights for her mother’s mental health against a system eager to over-medicate the elderly; and more—but all share one thing: a frustration with a system that hinders communication and often leads to unnecessary suffering. (Southern Methodist University Press, 2007)

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

Southern Methodist University Press

City

Dallas

Disciplines

Medical Humanities

Comments

Thomas Mayo, series editor

Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives

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