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Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore!
By Joanne Lynn
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Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. Today, most Americans live a long life, with the disabilities and discomforts of progressive chronic illness appearing only during the final chapters of their life stories. Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! maintains that health care and community services are not set up to meet the needs of the large number of people who face a prolonged period of progressive illness and disability before death. Lynn offers what she calls an "owner's manual for the health care system," which lays out facts, concepts, strategies, and action plans for genuine reform and gives the reader new ways to interpret information creatively, imagine innovative possibilities, and take steps to implement them.

ISBN: 9780520243002
Classification: Health systems & services
Format: Hardback (235mm x 159mm x 15mm)
Pages: 217
Publish Date: 11-Oct-2004
Country of Publication: United States

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Author Biography: Joanne Lynn
Joanne Lynn is Director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, Senior Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and President of Americans for Better Care of the Dying. She is the coauthor of Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians (2000) and Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness (1999), among other books. She has coedited several books, including A Good Dying: Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life (1998) and By No Extraordinary Means: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water (1986). She has also been a physician serving people living out the end of life in hospices, nursing homes, home care, and hospitals.

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Improving Care for the End of Life
Improving Care for the End of Life, Hardback (September 2007)
Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care
Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care, Paperback (March 2007)
Asperger Plus Child
Asperger Plus Child, Paperback (January 2007)
Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore!
Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore!, Hardback (October 2004)
Living Well at the End of Life
Living Well at the End of Life, Hardback (January 2003)
Paralegal Career Starter
Paralegal Career Starter, Paperback (February 2002)
Handbook for Mortals
Handbook for Mortals, Paperback (September 2001)
Improving Care for the End of Life
Improving Care for the End of Life, Hardback (October 2000)
Handbook for Mortals
Handbook for Mortals, Hardback (June 1999)
Good Dying
Good Dying, Hardback (May 1998)
Good Dying
Good Dying, Paperback (April 1998)
By No Extraordinary Means
By No Extraordinary Means, Hardback (December 1986)
By No Extraordinary Means
By No Extraordinary Means, Paperback (June 1986)
» View all books by Joanne Lynn
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