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Book Detail
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First, Do No Harm:
The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital
Belkin, Lisa
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Category: Practice of Medicine Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Synopsis:
"A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital...Harrowing... An important book." THE NEW YORK TIMES What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask--and ultimately answer--the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
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