Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end /
Gawande, Atul,
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Medicine and what matters in the end Atul Gawande. - First edition. - New York : Henry Holt and Company, c 2014 - 282 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
Introduction -- The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage -- Epilogue.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Text in English.
9780805095159 0805095152 9781627797481 1627797483 9781627790550 1627790551 9781250076229 1250076226
Henry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010 SAN 631-5011
2014017442
Terminal care.
Critical care medicine.
Aging--Physiological aspects.
Quality of life.
Hospice care.
Prognosis.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Older people.
Terminal Care
Aging--physiology
Activities of Daily Living
Quality of Life
Prognosis
Attitude to Death
Aged
Hospice Care
Critical Care
Aged, 80 and over
Book
R726.8 / .G39 2014
ARCH YNDC 362.17 G284B
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Medicine and what matters in the end Atul Gawande. - First edition. - New York : Henry Holt and Company, c 2014 - 282 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
Introduction -- The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage -- Epilogue.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Text in English.
9780805095159 0805095152 9781627797481 1627797483 9781627790550 1627790551 9781250076229 1250076226
Henry Holt & Co, C/O Mps 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10010 SAN 631-5011
2014017442
Terminal care.
Critical care medicine.
Aging--Physiological aspects.
Quality of life.
Hospice care.
Prognosis.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Older people.
Terminal Care
Aging--physiology
Activities of Daily Living
Quality of Life
Prognosis
Attitude to Death
Aged
Hospice Care
Critical Care
Aged, 80 and over
Book
R726.8 / .G39 2014
ARCH YNDC 362.17 G284B