The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics

by Barron H. Lerner

Book Overview

The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital's ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the mid-1990s, his father, an infectious diseases physician, told him a stunning story: he had physically placed his body over an end-stage patient who had stopped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807035041
• ISBN13: 9780807035047
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"