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Atul Gawande, BEING MORTAL |
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By: agate Date: September 17, 2022, 1:51 am |
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I'm reading BEING MORTAL: MEDICINE AND WHAT MATTERS IN THE END |
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(2014) by Atul Gawande, MD. I don't want to use this forum to |
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plug a book but this book is well worth reading--for anyone with |
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concerns about end-of-life issues. The author doesn't believe |
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that nursing homes and assisted living facilities are the right |
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way to treat people who need some help with their daily living |
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activities. |
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http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/ |
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Review of BEING MORTAL by Atul Gawande, MD |
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By: agate Date: September 27, 2022, 1:25 am |
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This is from my book reviews blog: |
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[quote][font=arial]BEING MORTAL: MEDICINE AND WHAT MATTERS IN |
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THE END (2014)[/font] |
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Although sometimes harrowing, the accounts presented by the |
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author here are meant to illustrate an important point--that |
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modern medical care as practiced in the US (and probably in |
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quite a number of other countries) places too much emphasis on |
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doing everything possible to save a human life. |
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Dr. Gawande is in favor of more knowledge about when to back |
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off, when to let a patient live out the remaining time in peace, |
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without having to endure the many hospitalizations and ICU |
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stays, surgeries and other procedures that are so often part of |
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a seriously ill person's life towards the end. |
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He also stresses that sometimes the patient would prefer |
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palliative care to the more drastic measures that could be taken |
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to save his life, but the family, in their zeal for keeping |
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their loved one alive as long as possible manages to overrule |
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that preference. |
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He cites cases from his own experience and especially from his |
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own family's, closing with a moving account of his father's |
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traditional Hindu funeral.[/quote] |
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