Enemies of Patients

by Ruth Macklin

A young man, terminally ill and in extreme suffering, asks to be removed from life support, requesting morphine first so he'll be asleep when the machine stops. His physician agrees, but the hospital's chief administrator intervenes, arguing that the morphine might itself cause death, leaving the physician open to criminal indictment for murder. To placate the administrator, the doctor and patient reach a grim compromise: life support will be disconnected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195072006
• ISBN13: 9780195072006
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"