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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-11-03
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0801890454
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care pdf
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This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. What challenges do health care workers face in remote locations? What are the differences between rural and urban health care practices? What particular ethical issues arise in treating residents of small communities? Craig M. Klugman and Pamela M. Dalinis gather philosophers, lawyers, physicians, nurses, and researchers to discuss these and other questions, offering a multidisciplinary overview of rural health care in the United States. Rural practitioners often practice within small, tight-knit communities, socializing with their patients outside the examination room. The residents are more likely to have limited finances and to lack health insurance. Physicians may have insufficient resources to treat their patients, who often have to tr Download Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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