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First, Do No Harm : The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital by Lisa Belkin (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101982153377

ISBN-139781982153373

eBay Product ID (ePID)12050400230

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameFirst, Do No Harm : The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEducation & Training, Critical Care, General

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMedical

AuthorLisa Belkin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal362.110973

Synopsis"Crammed with provocative insights, raw emotion, and heartbreaking dilemmas," ( The New York Times ) First, Do No Harm is a powerful examination of how life and death decisions are made at a major metropolitan hospital in Houston, as told through the stories of doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators facing unthinkable choices. What is life worth? And when is a life worth living? Journalist Lisa Belkin examines how these questions are asked and answered over one dramatic summer at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. In an account that is fascinating, revealing, and almost novelistic in its immediacy, Belkin takes us inside a major hospital and introduces us to the people who must make life and death decisions every day. As we walk through the hallways of the hospital we meet a young pediatrician who must decide whether to perform a risky last-ditch surgery on a teenager who has spent most of his fifteen years in a hospital; we watch as new parents battle with doctors over whether to disconnect their fragile, premature twins from the machine that keeps them breathing; we are in the operating room as a poor immigrant, paralyzed from a gunshot in the neck, is asked by doctors whether or not he wishes to stay alive; we witness the worry of a kidney specialist as he decides whether or not to transfer an uninsured baby to the county hospital down the road. We experience critical moments in the lives of these real people as Belkin explores challenging issues and questions involving medical ethics, human suffering, modern technology, legal liability, and financial reality. As medical technology advances, the choices grow more complicated. How far should we go to save a life? Who decides? And who pays?, A medical reporter for The New York Times delivers an exceptional, widely acclaimed work of true medicine. First, Do No Harm is the dramatic story of real doctors and patients making impossible choices at Houston's Harmann Hospital. Optioned by Paramount for Robert Redford.