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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Beacon Pr
Publication date
May 26, 2015
Pages
223
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780807035047
ISBN-10
0807035041
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.82 lbs.
Original list price
$18.00
Other format details
medical
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
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As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospitalâs ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage patient who had stopped breathing, preventing his colleagues from performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, even though CPR was the ethically and legally accepted thing to do. Over the next few years, the senior Dr. Lerner tried to speed the deaths of his seriously ill mother and mother-in-law to spare them further suffering.
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These stories angered and alarmed the younger Dr. Lernerâan internist, historian of medicine, and bioethicistâwho had rejected physician-based paternalism in favor of informed consent and patient autonomy. The Good Doctor is a fascinating and moving account of how Dr. Lerner came to terms with two very different images of his father: a revered clinician, teacher, and researcher who always put his patients first, but also a physician willing to âplay God,â opposing the very revolution in patients' rights that his son was studying and teaching to his own medical students.
But the elder Dr. Lernerâs journals, which he had kept for decades, showed the son how the fatherâs outdated paternalism had grown out of a fierce devotion to patient-centered medicine, which was rapidly disappearing. And they raised questions: Are paternalistic doctors just relics, or should their expertise be used to overrule patients and families that make ill-advised choices? Does the growing use of personalized medicineâin which specific interventions may be best for specific patientsâchange the calculus between autonomy and paternalism? And how can we best use technologies that were invented to save lives but now too often prolong death? In an era of high-technology medicine, spiraling costs, and health-care reform, these questions could not be more relevant.
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As his father slowly died of Parkinsonâs disease, Barron Lerner faced these questions both personally and professionally. He found himself being pulled into his dadâs medical care, even though he had criticized his father for making medical decisions for his relatives. Did playing Godâat least in some situationsâactually make sense? Did doctors sometimes âknow bestâ?
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A timely and compelling story of one familyâs engagement with medicine over the last half century, The Good Doctor is an important book for those who treat illnessâand those who struggle to overcome it.
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As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospitalâs ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage patient who had stopped breathing, preventing his colleagues from performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, even though CPR was the ethically and legally accepted thing to do. Over the next few years, the senior Dr. Lerner tried to speed the deaths of his seriously ill mother and mother-in-law to spare them further suffering.
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These stories angered and alarmed the younger Dr. Lernerâan internist, historian of medicine, and bioethicistâwho had rejected physician-based paternalism in favor of informed consent and patient autonomy. The Good Doctor is a fascinating and moving account of how Dr. Lerner came to terms with two very different images of his father: a revered clinician, teacher, and researcher who always put his patients first, but also a physician willing to âplay God,â opposing the very revolution in patients' rights that his son was studying and teaching to his own medical students.
But the elder Dr. Lernerâs journals, which he had kept for decades, showed the son how the fatherâs outdated paternalism had grown out of a fierce devotion to patient-centered medicine, which was rapidly disappearing. And they raised questions: Are paternalistic doctors just relics, or should their expertise be used to overrule patients and families that make ill-advised choices? Does the growing use of personalized medicineâin which specific interventions may be best for specific patientsâchange the calculus between autonomy and paternalism? And how can we best use technologies that were invented to save lives but now too often prolong death? In an era of high-technology medicine, spiraling costs, and health-care reform, these questions could not be more relevant.
     Â
As his father slowly died of Parkinsonâs disease, Barron Lerner faced these questions both personally and professionally. He found himself being pulled into his dadâs medical care, even though he had criticized his father for making medical decisions for his relatives. Did playing Godâat least in some situationsâactually make sense? Did doctors sometimes âknow bestâ?
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A timely and compelling story of one familyâs engagement with medicine over the last half century, The Good Doctor is an important book for those who treat illnessâand those who struggle to overcome it.
Editions
Hardcover
from Beacon Pr (May 13, 2014)
9780807033401 | details & prices | 223 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $25.95
About: The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care  As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospitalâs ethics committee, Dr.
About: The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care  As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospitalâs ethics committee, Dr.
Paperback
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from Beacon Pr (May 26, 2015)
9780807035047 | details & prices | 223 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $18.00
About: The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care  As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospitalâs ethics committee, Dr.
About: The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care  As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospitalâs ethics committee, Dr.
With Jim Bowser |
from St Martins Pr (February 1, 1987); titled "No Sanctuary"
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