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“Geyman’s literary voice arises from his unusual professional and political trajectories: from country doctor to academic department chair and prominent journal editor, and from longtime Republican to president of Physicians for a National Health Program . . . a passionate advocate and scholar.”—The New England Journal of Medicine

“The raging debate over how to pay for health insurance has missed a profoundly important fact: As big as it is, as tight of a grip it has on American life, the health insurance industry is dying,” states John Geyman, MD, in Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It.
    Written for lay readers, health care professionals, and policymakers alike, Do Not Resuscitate moves beyond books that decry our current problems to reveal what the trend for more than half a century of increasing costs and decreasing coverage really means. The situation for doctors, patients, caregivers, and even the insured will move from dysfunctional to a complete breakdown over the next decade. In one of many examples Geyman cites, as employers cut costs in a global economy, the cost of health insurance as a proportion of wages is rising to the point where it will consume all average household income by 2025.

John Geyman is professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy?, Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance, and Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare.

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"Including all new laws passed by the Ohio General Assembly and filed with the Secretary of State through March 1,2007 and rules adopted through March 28,2007.".
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This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. The purpose of the volume is to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives and, beyond that, to facilitate discussion about the many complicated issues surrounding death and dying today.

Each play is followed by critical commentary. The introduction provides lucid and succinct explanation of the human, ethical, and legal contexts for the rights of patients in the United States. The volume includes appendices providing values history and living will declarations, durable power of attorney statements, and resource information.

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This is a handbook of ethics for a diverse audience of health care providers Its subject is the moral and legal force of `advance directives', which are documents intended to declare and preserve the values, choices, and preferences of patients in the event that they become unable to make decisions about their own health care. The posture of the work is one of strong support for patients' individual health care choices, and encouragement of thoughtful use of advance directives to that end. The work presents a historical and conceptual examination of the patient's role in medical decision making and the refusal of treatment, with special attention to the problems of advance decision making. It examines the types and models of advance directives currently in common use and gives suggestions both about helping patients to write directives and about interpreting and making use of directives prepared by patients and encountered by clinicians. Finally, the implications of the suggested policy are examined in light of growing concerns about the scarcity of funds and resources for health care..
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Medical Directives & Powers of Attorney for California helps families avoid legal problems if they ever become unable to make healthcare or financial decisions for themselves. Step by step, it takes readers through the creation of an:

Advance Health Care Directive
Durable Power of Attorney for Finance
Do Not Resuscitate Order

This book also contains a wallet card you can use to alert others to the existence of your advance directive, plus forms you can use if you ever want to revise or revoke a document. All forms are available as tear-outs and on a CD-ROM..
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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 555 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Hospital utilization of DNRs varies widely for ischemic stroke patients: data from California.(Cardiovascular Medicine)(do-not-resuscitate )
Author: Robert Finn
Publication:Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 37 Issue: 3 Page: 65(1)

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This digital document is an article from MedSurg Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1455 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Identifying Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) status on patient wristbands can effectively ensure that a patient's wishes are known when resuscitation efforts are required. Nurses at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts implemented an identification program by placing a heart-shaped hole on the wristband of patients with DNR orders. DNR patients found the identifier reassuring, and the medical staff supported the system.

Citation Details
Title: Wristband identification of DNR patients. (Do Not Resuscitate status)(Nursing Ethics)
Author: Patricia Kelly Rosier
Publication:MedSurg Nursing (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: v6 Issue: n6 Page: p371(2)

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