Death Interrupted
How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die
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Narrateur(s):
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Robert Lee
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Auteur(s):
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Blair Bigham
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Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves.
In Death Interrupted, Dr Blair Bigham seeks to help listeners understand the options facing them at the end of their lives. Through conversations with end-of-life professionals - including ethicists, social workers and nurses and doctors who practise palliative care—and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms and the ICU, Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying and answers the tough questions facing us all. Because now, for the first time in human history, we may be able to choose how our own story ends.
©2022 Dr Blair Bigham. Published by arrangement with House of Anansi Press, Toronto, Canada (P)2022 Bolinda PublishingExcellent listen for everyone - a must for health care providers
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Information I really needed to hear!
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Death is the only certainty in life, but talking to your family about what is an acceptable quality of life for you, will help everyone make hard decisions when you cannot, and allow them to find comfort through the devistation.
Thanks Dr. Bigham for putting into words the ethical dilemma medical professionals like myself deal with constantly and showing the big picture, that technology can only go so far.
I highly enjoyed the read and suggest it to anyone.
Wow, everyone needs to read this!
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Everyone needs to read this book!
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Great Read
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