A new study, headed by Dr. Fred Mirarchi, author of Understanding
Your Living Will, has just been published in the Journal of Emergency
Medicine. The study, "Do Living Wills Have an Impact on Pre-Hospital
Lifesaving Care?" confirms that confusion exists in the interpretation of
living wills. According to Dr. Mirarchi, medical personnel's understanding about
when to follow "do not resuscitate" orders is not always clear and may
lead to a patient's wishes not be followed. After the study was published, Dr.
Mirarchi was also interviewed by the New
York Times.
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Addicus Books continues to add more e-Books to its Web site and plans to have the entire list of books available in electronic format by the end of 2009. "We are adding eBooks because of customers' increasing interest in being able to download books immediately," said Jack Kusler, Associate Publisher. "And as more and more portable devices are being used to read books, it makes sense to make our titles available in this new format."
Second editions will be released in the Fall 2009 for two titles. The first one is Understanding Parkinson's Disease, orignally authored by David Cram, M.D. For the second edition, neurologists Xia Ke Gao, M.D., and Steven Schechter, M.D., join Dr. Cram as co-authors. Also being released as a new, second edition is Living with PCOS--Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, by Angela Best-Boss and
Evelina Sterling. Endocrinologist Scott
Isaacs, M.D., joins them as medical editor.
