Both authors studied medicine and philosophy at university, but they are more often to be found in hospitals. They deal with all the difficult situations mentioned above – as well as many others – daily, and help patients, medical practitioners and relatives to take the right decision in each individual case. In writing this book with numerous case studies, the authors have drawn on their own rich experience and practical expertise. In twelve chapters, each based on a different life event or stage, they look at the whole spectrum of fundamental questions of modern medicine. One of these is the use of artificial intelligence. The goal of this book is to help us become experts in our own lives, values and feelings and to master situations which are often a matter of life and death.

• What medicine is capable of, which options we have, how we can take the right decisions