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When a medical crisis happens, the hardest questions often aren’t medical. They’re human.
Who should make the decisions when a patient cannot speak for themselves? How much treatment is too much? What happens when doctors, patients, and families disagree? Who has the authority to decide—and how can you make sure your own wishes are heard?
In Ask Why? Medical Ethics 101, psychiatrist David A. Kent, M.D. brings more than thirty-five years of clinical experience to the difficult ethical decisions that patients and families may face in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and moments of crisis.
Written in clear, compassionate language, this book takes medical ethics beyond abstract theories and brings it into the situations that affect real people. It encourages readers not simply to accept what they are told, but to understand their choices, ask better questions, and think carefully about what matters most.
Through thoughtful discussion of autonomy, informed consent, decision-making, advance directives, patient rights, medical authority, and other ethical dilemmas, Ask Why? helps readers become better prepared for conversations they may one day need to have.
This is not a book that promises simple answers to complicated questions. Instead, it provides something more useful: the knowledge and perspective to participate meaningfully in decisions about your health, your family, and your future.
Because when the stakes are highest, knowing what questions to ask matters.
Whether you are a patient, family member, caregiver, healthcare professional, student, or simply someone who wants to be better prepared for life's difficult medical decisions, Ask Why? Medical Ethics 101 invites you to examine one essential question:
Why do we choose what we choose—and who should get to decide?
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David Kent is the author of four Department Thirty thrillers, includinghis acclaimed debut novel, Department Thirty. He grew up in Madill, Oklahoma, and is a former press secretary and media adviser to several congressional candidates. Under his real name of Kent Anderson, he worked as a broadcaster for twenty-seven years, and worked in marketing with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra. He has three sons, and lives in Oklahoma City.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A plain-language guide to the medical decisions every one of us will face - and almost none of us are prepared for.Sooner or later, life asks it of all of us. A phone call at 3 a.m. A diagnosis no one saw coming. A parent who can no longer speak for themselves. And suddenly you are facing the hardest decisions of your life - with no idea how to make them.We're taught how to drive a car and how to file our taxes. We are almost never taught how to navigate illness, consent, impossible choices, and the end of life - even though not one of us will escape them.Ask Why? Medical Ethics 101 closes that gap. In clear, jargon-free language, and through real and relatable stories, Dr. David A. Kent - a board-certified psychiatrist with more than thirty-five years of experience - opens up the medical decisions that touch every human life, and hands the power to make them back to you.Inside, you'll learn: What informed consent actually means - and why a signature is not the same as understandingHow to weigh a treatment's risks against its benefits, and why "cuts your risk in half" can be dangerously misleadingWhat really happens when a loved one is seriously ill and refuses help - and what the law does and doesn't allowHow to tell when more treatment has stopped helping and started harmingWhat hospice and palliative care truly offer - and what "do everything" really meansWho decides when you no longer can - and the difference between a health care proxy and a court-appointed guardianHow to find trustworthy medical information in the age of AI and misinformationHow to take control in advance - living wills, powers of attorney, wills, and trusts - and spare your family needless divisionThis is more than a book about medicine. It is a guide to one of the most fundamental parts of being human: caring for ourselves and the people we love, wisely and with dignity, all the way to the end. Every chapter is grounded in the evidence, and every chapter ends on hope.Because the most important question in medicine isn't a medical one. It's a human one.It begins with two words: Ask why. Is a clear, evidence-based guide to the medical decisions we all must face - consent, risk, end-of-life care, who decides when you can't, and how to prepare - written for everyone. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798993779461
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