The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-Of-Life Care

by Angelo E. Volandes

Book Overview

In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool.

There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620408554
• ISBN13: 9781620408551
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"