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Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. How Medicine Changed the End of Life. You Can Stop Humming Now. Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity. Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length: February 21, Whispersync for Voice: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. See all customer images. Showing of 73 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews.
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Please try again later. I had placed this book on my wish list. I was sure I should read it. I was not sure I wanted to read it. Without divulging my own history, allow me to say that I am a lifelong skeptic in so far as the value of medical treatment for any but the most common human conditions. At the same time I have the highest respect for the sacrifices made by nurses and physicians. In the end, I clicked on the wrong button and ended up with a complete copy in my Kindle. The first time I attempted to read it the early history of author and ancestors caused buyers remorse.
The second time I started with chapter 2 and was immediately engrossed. That was because it validated nearly all my firmly held convictions about just how badly so many people end their lives in the ICU. Please consider that living in Brazil and traveling in much of latin america opened my eyes to pain, suffering, and death many years ago.
Inflicting it in the ICU seems much worse, however. My parents are deceased. In the ten years following the death of one, management of death had improved remarkably for the other. With the passage of death with dignity here in Colorado, I see a glimmer of hope that death may come to be viewed as merely the end of life. For many it will merely become a release without the fears of anguish so frequently dispensed in the ICU. There have been a number of important texts Being Mortal, Modern Death, The Conversation written about end of life and end of life choices and non-choices.
This new book by Dr Zitter by another excellent book for those interested in this topic. Dr Zitter has a long history as an intensivist and palliative care physician, an unique combination that allows her to understand the nuances of "conveyor belt medicine" that is now the default for the dying in America. Her stories are poignant and revealing, including the fact that she herself struggles to complete her advance directive. Family physicians, geriatricians, internists, and oncologists should read this book and think about it. Medical care should be about the patient, not about the doctor or the malpractice attorney.
Extreme Measures arrived at my door on Friday, I started it Saturday evening, and finished it Sunday afternoon. Replete with personal anecdotes and stories from a career that has spanned more than 20 years, Dr. Zitter succeeds in exploring and revealing the complexities, moral and ethical, of end-of-life care in twenty-first century America. As she so thoughtfully and compassionately points out, striving for a good death is no less important than fiercely fighting to help those who may recover, once the point has been reached where cure is no longer possible and the costs of delaying the inevitable are measured in dehumanizing and often unbearable suffering for patient and family alike.
Zitter is a very gifted writer, but more importantly: She shows herself to be the physician any of us would want caring for ourselves or for our loved ones in our hour of need. Working in long term care and rehabilitation I am amazed how very few patients are presented with choices in an honest manner. Extreme Measures is a breath of fresh air, candid and humane.
There is no right or wrong to informed choices, but their is literally a lot "deathly" wrong with suffering due to ignorance or unwillingness to share the good the bad and the ugly with those most vulnerable. Only when we lift the veil and shadow off of death can we get up close and personal with our own personal endings and celebrate death as honorable and human as birth.
This is a deep and deeply helpful book, beautifully written. All of us will die, sometimes in ways we do not want but can change with forethought. This book helps us prepare to navigate the many choices at critical points, especially at the end of life. The short, compassionate descriptions of real life situations that went well, or badly, give concrete examples of what we might face and what we can do about it. The author is uniquely qualified to speak to these issues, as both an intensivist ICU doctor and a palliative care specialist. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. If you care at all about end-of life-issues, either for yourself or for the sake of your loved ones.
Had this book been available before my father's death, he could have been spared a lot of pain and treatments that only contributed to his suffering without improving his quality of life or his overall health. This non-profit organization remains dedicated to representing and informing seniors of their Medicare and other health-related insurance benefits and rights.
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