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Product Description: This book provides the best information available on the ways priorities are currently set for health care around the world. It describes the methods now used in the six countries leading the process, and contrasts the differences between them...read more

This work provides a practical resource of teaching techniques, aiming to encourage busy clinicians to teach by increasing their confidence in their training abilities. It describes how to approach team teaching, planning, teaching methods and evaluation.

Product Description: Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is therefore of major importance for family doctors, nurses and all those committed to maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the dying person...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of Canadian novelist and short story writer Jack Hodgins and his work.