Product Description

This book contains a foreword by Robert Twycross. "Those reading this book will be inspired to look at local ways to address the inequity of access to supportive and palliative care for patients with heart failure. We hope that a future book might describe a very different picture as the research base of symptom control and service provision develops over coming years" - Miriam Johnson and Richard Lehman. ""Heart Failure and Palliative Care: A Team Approach" is an exciting book. It is exciting for the traditional 'old-style' palliative care clinician (like me) whose practice and expertise is almost entirely limited to end-stage malignant disease. I believe it will also be exciting for cardiology clinicians. It will liberate them (if liberation is needed) from the narrow 'bio-medical' model of disease management, and enable them to adopt a more holistic patient-centred approach. This means that the focus will be on a PERSON with heart failure, rather than a person with HEART FAILURE. On paper, this may seem a small difference but in practice the change of focus has a big effect." - Robert Twycross, in the Foreword.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #538395 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Review
'Short and well written... very readable... a good summary of the issues and the literature' MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

About the Author
Respectively Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine Hull York Medical School and Consultant Palliative Physician St. Catherine's Hospice, Throxenby Lane, Scarborough; General Practitioner, Banbury