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SUGGESTED
READING LIST
Making a Killing: HMOs and
the Threat to Your Health, by Jamie Court and Francis Smith,
224
pages, $13.57, paperback. (Common Courage Press, 1999)
This is a classic!
Available at Amazon.com
This
book will make you think...
It addresses the haunting question, "Do HMOs
deliberately neglect or even kill off their unprofitable
patients?" Read the book. Make up your own mind.
Dorothy Cancilla-Author
Hospice
Patients Alliance Family Guide to Hospice Care
by Ron Panzer
Panzer, R. (1999). MI: Hospice Patients Alliance Press.
A hands-on guide to obtaining the best care for the terminally
ill,
with tips on bedside care and problem resolution. The only
consumer-oriented
guide to hospice care written from the
patient-family perspective which lists all the federal
standards
of care for hospice care and explains what services you are
entitled to receive in hospice...all the best information to assure
you get quality hospice services for your loved one.
The inspired essays contained in The Heart Of End-Of-Life Care reveal the mission of hospice and end-of-life care and expose the dangers threatening the industry and the public in the 21st century.
These essays appeal to the noblest purpose of end-of-life care and starkly contrasts those who wish to use hospice for a very dark agenda that threatens our very society and the lives of the vulnerable disabled and elderly.
The Table of Contents:
Called To Serve The Greatest Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time! The Killer Death Is Not the Enemy Physicians Who Have Researched Euthanasia Speak Out When Your Loved One Dies Under Questionable Circumstances Listening to The Mindless Gibberish Of A Right- to-Hasten Death "Leader" A Very Small Candle Why Doctors Are Perhaps the LEAST Qualified To Make Judgments About Life and Death Matters! Hospice Agencies That Terrorize the Chronically Disabled Hospice Industry Shoots Itself In the Foot Lynching the Elderly and Disabled? "THE PASSION" and the Dead Love & the Corporate Money Machine Shame The Hospice Life Pledge When All is Said and Done
If you've enjoyed these articles, you can read them all together, share them with others, and send them to your friends, family and coworkers. I know that this eBook will inspire the very best in end-of-life care and important discussion about the issues that truly matter in our society. Sales of this e-book support the mission of Hospice Patients Alliance.
E-Books are electronic versions of books that you can quickly download to read on your computer, pocket PC and even listen to while doing other tasks. The Microsoft Reader format is very easy to read and has the capability to convert the text to sound that you can listen to.
I believe you will enjoy these writings which certainly touch my heart, and hope you will share them with others!
