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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.