Lessons in Mortality

Allen Weisse has observed the changing medical scene during half a century of treating patients and training future physicians, and, in Lesson in Mortality, he writes frankly about how doctors and patients have come to deal with illness in the twenty-first century. Drawing from a storehouse of experiences shared by colleagues, patients, and friends, Weisse writes with passion and conviction to encourage a renewal of the openness and trust that seems to be lacking in today's doctor-patient relationships. These stories, both uplifting and disturbing, are intended to make doctors and patients alike come to a fuller realization that we are all together in this delicate but crucial business of staying alive.