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First, Do No Harm
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780449222904
ISBN: 044922290X
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: March 02, 1994
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: March 02, 1994
Studio: Fawcett
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Editorial Review:
"A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital...Harrowing... An important book."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask--and ultimately answer--the most profound and heart-rendng questions about life and death.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - great book
i really like this book. touching stories that open your brain to different dilemmas in medical ethics, a subject i enjoy reading about. i lent it to several friends, all of whom loved the book.
Rating: - Good read
I enjoyed the book. Makes you think about ethics a bit and the reality of financial constraints on the practice of medicine.
Rating: - Great Material
This book will keep you wanting to turn the page and make it hard to put down the book. This is a great explanation of real life situations that patients and hospitals face everyday. Some of the situations that are hard for some people to understand why hospitals are concerned with matters like money and certain treatments of patients can be explained.
Rating: - Inside Texas Medical Center...
Lisa Belkin has created an amazing book here - she definitely did her research. The book consists of a few case studies of patients who pose ethical dilemas. Belkin takes you inside meetings of the ethics committee at the hospital, she takes you to the patient's bedside to see what the patient actually wants. Some of the patients she follows are a young kid who has been hospitalized for 15 years with a terminal condition, beating all odds by staying alive that long, several premature babies, and ... Read More
Rating: - You may laugh or may cry, but you won't put this book down
Despite the major advances in knowledge, skills, and technology in the field of medicine, this book shows that ultimately life and death fall back on the human touch. Following the workings of an Ethics Committee in a major urban hospital over several months, Belkin clearly shows that medicine continues to be as much an art as a science and in many cases there are no "right" answers, even when decisions can affect whether a patient lives or dies.
This is not a dry, mechanical review of how ... Read More
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