Advance Health Care Directives: A Handbook for Professionals |
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| 5460034 |
| Scott K. Summers, Carol Krohm M.D. |
| 2002 |
| 1-59031-008-X |
| 374 |
| 6 x 9 Paperback |
| Senior Lawyers Division |
| Disability Law, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law, General Practice, Health Law, Human Rights Law, Solos and Small Firms |
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| $99.95 (Regular) |
| $89.95 (Senior Lawyers Division) ABA Members, Log in now to receive this discount! |
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Help your clients and patients plan, write, execute, and implement essential "personal contingency plans" for health care decision-making.
It is now absolutely imperative for professionals to be conversant -- indeed, knowledgeable and authoritative -- about these indispensable personal planning documents.
Directives - which include living wills and health care powers of attorney (or proxies) - are unique in a heretofore unknown way. They draw heavily on the knowledge and skills of practitioners from all three of the noble professions: law, medicine, and spirit.
That's precisely why Advance Health Care Directives: A Handbook for Professionals is such an exceedingly important work. Authored by a lawyer and a physician, this far ranging volume deals with the difficult and sensitive issues faced by professionals - lawyers, doctors, nurses, clerics, spiritual advisors, chaplains, social workers, palliative caregivers, and all allied walks - in helping clients and patients plan, write, execute, and implement these utterly essential "personal contingency plans" for health care decision-making.
With writing that is by turns fresh, engaging, provocative, passionate, and inspiring, Scott Summers and Carol Krohm have combined their commanding wealth of professional experience and knowledge with extensive research to produce what surely is the leading reference text in the field.
Book includes a CD-ROM containing statutes and Advance Health Care Directives by state.
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"A major contribution of the Senior Lawyers Division to the legal profession is the work of the Division's book publishing operation. For example, Advance Health Care Directives is a volume that any legal practitioner and any health care provider would want to keep close at hand. The lawyer advising the client seeking an advance health care directive, the doctor who is providing medical assistance to an extremely ill patient, the hospital dealing with family members at odds as to whether procedures that may extend life should be terminated, and the client contemplating signing a directive, all need to know the boundaries governing what may and may not be permissible. This book has the best answers available.
The authors have a remarkable combination of expertise in the area. Dr. Carol Krohm, M.D., provides the medical prospective. Scott Summers is a practicing lawyer in Illinois who also holds a management degree in business. Their associated talents have combined to provide this significant source of information.
In short, this book is of value not only to the lawyer advising a client seeking an advance health care directive, but also to the clergyman advising the client, the hospital administration having to deal with end-of-life issues, and lawyers and others confronting ethical issues in these situations."
George H. Cain
Experience, Winter 2005
"With the Terri Schiavo case still fresh in our minds, this book is an excellent resource for attorneys and other professionals who wish to encourage others to complete powers of attorney for health care."
Wisconsin Lawyer, September 2005
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