This addition to the popular Pearls Series® presents 71 case presentations of clinical interest related to end-of-life and palliative care for both hospitalized patients and patients receiving home care. The patient vignettes highlight considerations of pain and symptom management at the end of life, ethical issues related to life-supportive care, and approaches to assisting patients and families with the difficulties that surround death and dying.

Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Byock MD, Ira

Heffner MD, John E.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Hanley & Belfus

A doctor who specializes in caring for the dying recounts the stories of his patients and their families in order to illustrate how good medicine can help people face death, resolve conflicts, and facilitate death with clarity and peace.

Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Riverhead Hardcover

From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well. Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, medical drama, and conflict. Through the true stories of patients, he shows us that a lot of important emotional work can be accomplished in the final months, weeks, and even days of life. It is a companion for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to loved ones—and how to make the end of life as meaningful and enriching as the beginning. Ira Byock is also the author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life.

Parenting & Relationships

Riverhead Books

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