Download or read book Closing Death s Door written by Michael J. Saks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer). Research suggests that avoidable errors claim several hundred thousand lives every year. The principal economic counterforce to such errors, malpractice litigation, has never been a particularly effective deterrent for a host of reasons, with fewer than 3% of negligently injured patients (or their families) receiving any compensation from a doctor or hospital's insurer. Closing Death's Door brings the psychology of decision making together with the law to explore ways to improve patient safety and reduce iatrogenic injury, when neither the healthcare industry itself nor the legal system has made a substantial dent in the problem. Beginning with an unflinching introduction to the problem of patient safety, the authors go on to define iatrogenic injury and its scope, shedding light on the culture and structure of a healthcare industry that has failed to effectively address the problem-and indeed that has influenced legislation to weaken existing legal protections and impede the adoption of potentially promising reforms. Examining the weak points in existing systems with an eye to using law to more effectively bring about improvement, the authors conclude by offering a set of ideas intended to start a conversation that will lead to new legal policies that lower the risk of harm to patients. Closing Death's Door is brought to vivid life by the stories of individuals and groups that have played leading roles in the nation's struggle with iatrogenic injury, and is essential reading for medical and legal professionals, as well as lawmakers and laypeople with an interest in healthcare policy.
Download or read book Before Death s Door Closes written by Jean Bressler and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is inevitable; yet communication about it with a loved one, particularly one who is elderly and ill, is often distressful. Thus, many relatives and close friends postpone a discussion of funeral preferences and financial matters until it is too late. Making necessary decisions at an already traumatic time with the death of a loved one can be especially overwhelming and complicated. Hopefully, Before Death s Door Closes: What You Really Need To Know can provide you with the confidence to open a general discussion of important topics with your loved one. With the book at hand, you might read some of the examples of people who have faced similar problems. Here is an immediate source of information for obtaining specific and professional help on a number of topics.
Download or read book Death s Door written by Steve Lehto and published by Momentum Books LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses historical documents to conclude that at a party in 1913 for the children of copper miners who were on strike, someone supporting the mine owners yelled "fire" and fled, causing a rush that left seventy-three children dead.
Download or read book At Death s Door written by Sebastian Sepulveda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Death’s Door: End of Life Stories from the Bedside tells the powerful story of Sebastian Sepulveda’s experiences in working with patients at the end of their lives. In some cases, death came quickly, after the patient was first diagnosed with a terminal condition and entered the hospital. In other cases, patients had a long, progressive illness that got increasingly worse over the months or years until they were in their final days. In some cases, patients were able to fight off death for many years. Hard decisions are often made—whether to resuscitate or not, whether to choose hospice or not, who makes the decisions when a patient cannot, and whose decision to follow when several family members are involved in decision making. Written from the perspective of a medical doctor from years of experience, this personal approach to the end of life explores the many options available to patients and their families and reveals how real people have come to those decisions, and how they play out. With insight and sensitivity, Sepulveda offers families an important window into how life can end with compassion, care, control, and dignity. At Death’s Door features over fifty stories drawn from Sepulveda’s experience as a doctor dealing with these patients and families. As states debate the legality of assisted suicide and other end of life rights, real people make real decisions every day regarding end of life. Their stories come to life in these pages, and readers with similar concerns will find relief, comfort, and company as they face these decisions themselves.
Download or read book Death at Death s Door written by Jill Thompson and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Jill Thompson; Art and Cover by Thompson A manga digest, printed in black, white, and gray tones, featuring appearances by Sandman and all his siblings. In an original story that parallels the events of SANDMAN: SEASON OF MIST, the minions of Hell end up in Death's apartment. Sisters Delirium and Despair decide to throw a party for the dead - which quickly gets out of control. It's up to Dream's older sister Death to figure out how to save the day and the afterlife...not to mention the carpet.
Download or read book Death s Door written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent critic, poet and memoirist Sandra M Gilert -- author of The Madwoman in the Attic explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry and societal practices.
Download or read book At Death s Door written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us the latest adventure in the Deadman's Cross saga with At Death's Door, an epic pirate fantasy perfect for her millions of Dark-Hunter fans Welcome to the latest Deadmen’s Quest... Valynda Moore was born cursed. So when she dies as the result of a spell gone wrong and is trapped in the body of a voodoo doll, she expects nothing else from her messed up life. Until Thorn, leader of the Hellchasers, offers her a chance at redemption and a new life. But nothing has ever gone her way, for the Malachai, the very beast she and her crew of Deadmen have sworn to keep locked away, has risen. And this time he’s taken prisoners. Valynda must keep her wits about her or be denied her salvation and forced to watch as the entire world falls into the hands of absolute evil. It’s a demon-eat-demon world where the stakes have never been higher and either redemption or the ultimate betrayal waits for her at Death’s Door. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Beyond Death s Door written by Brent L. Top and published by Bookcraft, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death At Death s Door written by Jill Thompson and published by DC. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manga digest, printed in black, white, and gray tones, featuring appearances by Sandman and all his siblings. In an original story that parallels the events of SANDMAN: SEASON OF MIST, the minions of Hell end up in Death's apartment. Sisters Delirium and Despair decide to throw a party for the dead „ which quickly gets out of control. It's up to Dream's older sister Death to figure out how to save the day and the afterlife...not to mention the carpet. - See more at: http://www.vertigocomics.com/graphic-novels/death-at-deaths-door#sthash.n4kVDERt.dpuf
Download or read book Beyond Death s Door written by Maurice Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Death s Door written by Maurice Rawlings and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available now from Maurice Rawlings!
Download or read book Darksiders II Death s Door written by Andrew Kreisberg and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into the days before the Apocalypse, Darksiders II: Death's Door is a pivotal contribution to the world of the game! Created in collaboration with Joe Madureira's Vigil Games, this original story follows Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, on a mission to destroy a rogue demon. Chasing the creature across magical realms and even through time, Death takes on a heart-pounding adventure that reveals some of the greatest mysteries of the games!
Download or read book At Death s Door written by Sebastian Sepulveda and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So often, the discussion of what comes at the end of life is side-stepped, avoided, delayed, or never had. Deciding how to make a "good" death, and where to have it, is difficult, but with guidance and examples, the dying and their families can make informed decisions that help ease the path. This book will help them do just that.
Download or read book Death s End written by Cixin Liu and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle? Death's End is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Cixin Liu's tour-de-force series that began with The Three-Body Problem. "The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder." --The Wall Street Journal "A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller." --NPR The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)
Download or read book Knocking on Heaven s Door written by Katy Butler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines a less invasive, more humane approach to end-of-life care, sharing the stories of the author's parents and explaining the political and technological factors that are interfering with patient preferences.
Download or read book A Death in Door County written by Annelise Ryan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she’s not tending the store, she’s hunting cryptids—creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. It’s a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one she’ll never give up on. So when a number of bodies turn up on the shores of Lake Michigan with injuries that look like bites from a giant unknown animal, police chief Jon Flanders turns to Morgan for help. A skeptic at heart, Morgan can’t turn down the opportunity to find proof of an entity whose existence she can’t definitively rule out. She and her beloved rescue dog, Newt, journey to the the strait known as Death’s Door to hunt for a homicidal monster in the lake—but if they’re not careful, she just might be its next victim.
Download or read book Beyond Deaths Door written by Dr Maurice Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1979-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
