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The Best Way to Say Goodbye: A Legal Peaceful Choice at the End of Life. Stanley A. Terman, PhD, MD. Carlsbad, CA: Life Transitions Publications (1st ed.): January 12, 2008. 489 pp.
Policymakers and health care professionals have often bemoaned the fact that many Americans have are unaware of their rights as patients. As the research by Dr. Stanley Terman demonstrates in The Best Way to Say Goodbye: A Legal Peaceful Choice at the End of Life, nowhere, perhaps, is the need for education more urgent than in the realm of end-of-life care. Anticipated increases in Alzheimers and other dementias are likely to coincide with shortages in the number of working and caregiving nurses. Important nurse-intensive health care...