an excellent contribution to medical ethics -Ethics

wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful -Publishers Weekly

a sensitive and provocative approach to the study of ethical decision making -Choice

[This] sensitive and moving book … compels and merits the grateful, concentrated, and critical attention of all who know, who live with, and who seek to help those human beings to whom terrible things have happened. -BioLaw

The human contact embodied in The Patient’s Ordeal puts the book light-years ahead of others in the field of medical ethics… . Once the dust from the academic reviews has settled, this book will be one of the few in the field of medical ethics that is thought of as a seminal work, one that has broken new ground. A remarkable, well-written, significant work, it cannot be commended too highly. -Second Opinion