Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.
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Health and medical wants: your personal health care system -- Health and medical wishes: providers, facilities, and programs -- Health and medical wills: your medical conditions -- Personal wants: doctors and dialogue -- Personal wishes: screening and counseling -- Personal wills: drugs, diets, and devices -- Medical-legal wants: understanding interventions -- Medical-legal wishes: defining capacity, consciousness, and contingencies -- Medical-legal wills: directives, definitions, and discussions -- Selfless contribution wants: donating time, tissue, and treatment data -- Selfless contribution wishes: individual purpose, production, and protection -- Selfless contribution wills: donation requirements, responsibilities, and rights -- Estate planning wants: purpose, preparation, and protection -- Estate planning wishes: caring for family, friends, and foundations -- Estate planning wills: testaments, trusts, and other tools -- Legacy wants: providing ideas, intentions, and instructions -- Legacy wishes: assisting family, friends, and future generations to remember -- Legacy wills: your safety, your rights, and your records.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Glisson, a respected oncologist, and Whitman, an experienced estate lawyer, provide compassionate, up-to-date, plain-English guidance one needs in order to make decisions for important health, end-of-life, and estate planning issues.