Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

Author/Contributor(s):	Kaufman, Sharon R
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	05/29/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.