Death Interrupted
How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die
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Publisher Description
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In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era.
Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive almost indefinitely. But this unprecedented shift in intensive 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.
Through conversations with critical care and end-of-life professionals—including ethicists, social workers, nurses, and doctors—and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms, and the icu, Dr. Blair Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying by addressing the tough questions facing us all.
Customer Reviews
Hello from Hospice….
Having been involved in a Hospice for 10 years I can concur, that the vast majority of people who are faced with the decision outlined in this book are truly stressed by the need to support a decision as it relates to the care one should seek. I suggest you dig deep, and help the love one chose the road that will give the the best quality of life, and don’t focus on the number of weeks or months they may have left.
PS: Also get your ACP well documented, and make sure you family know your wishes.