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Bezig met laden... Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (editie 2014)door Atul Gawande (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An excellent look at the end of life in its many forms, focused on old age but including terminal illness at all ages. Hospice and palliative care are so important but they are often put off in hopes of finding a cure for what may not have one. I think this would have been better with some mention of the disparities between care offered to those in different socioeconomic classes. This was still very good though, especially with the focus on accepting our own mortality. This book should be required reading for anyone with aging parents. Who am I kidding? Everyone needs to read this because all of us will face these decisions someday for ourselves or for someone we love. The book talks about death with dignity. What makes life worth living when your body is at the edge of failure? How much medicine is too much? How can we do the right thing to make care for the elderly better in assisted living homes? I read this book a week after my Mother passed away. I feel comforted by the book because it supports the decisions that were made at the very end of her life but it makes me feel terrible about my own lack of interest in her life while she was living in assisted living. Very readable despite the subject matter. An important book, but gut wrenching to read. I wonder how many important conversations with loved ones will be started by people who read it. How much are you willing to suffer now for a chance at more time? How do you choose between options that are all terrifying? Who can you count on to decide for you when you can't decide for yourself? I hope all med students read it. One of the few light moments for me was how much doctors don't want to treat "Old Crocks" as we oldsters are known. I'm going to make a real effort not to seem vague and cranky next time I talk to a physician. Several years ago, when my husband and I spelled out our medical directives, I emphatically voiced to him that, if I became unable to communicate or move, I needed to have 2 conditions. 1. I needed to be near a window that opened to a cool breeze. 2. I needed to have a view of trees. This books helps us understand why there is so so much more that needs to be included in that conversation. If we are indeed the authors of our own story, we need to spend time and effort to craft the final chapter now. There won't be any opportunity for postscripts.
His new book, “Being Mortal,” is a personal meditation on how we can better live with age-related frailty, serious illness and approaching death. It is also a call for a change in the philosophy of health care. Gawande writes that members of the medical profession, himself included, have been wrong about what their job is. Rather than ensuring health and survival, it is “to enable well-being.” PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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"Coming form a background wherein the elderly are not placed in a nursing home once they reach ancient years but are taken in by younger relatives and cared for until they pass away it means that family unity is important to my familial clan and to my natal family-my parents-as well. My siblings see it differently though I won't get into that here in this review. I also see caring for my parents not as my duty, but as my obligation to pay it forward and to bless them in their aging years and give them an excellent quality of life just as they gave me a great start to life!"
"I will always treasure this book for reminding me that living with my parents until they die and caring for them out of love and joy is better than moving out and being miserable to pay someone else's mortgage and let them live debt free and have a better quality of life whilst your parents suffer in their lives. From the example the author gave about his relatives it inspired me to stay the course and continue serving my parents faithfully in their home and do my part to make their lives easier as they age by being as supportive of their independence and wishes as much as possible and for them to respect mine as well. But for us to also collaborate together as a team to come. up with a game plan for their enjoyment and happiness without spending any money. For me that is spending time reading with my mother. For my father and I ti is deep conversations that give me insights and a window into his heart and peace in knowing that he is going to be okay even though he may never be reconciled with certain family members for various reasons. I see it as my duty and my charge to bolster my parents and to champion my siblings separately and promote unity and harmony for all my living relatives that I am in contact with so that being mortal in this life of living will turn into a beautiful eternity of a lasting legacy of joy, harmony, wisdom, and peace at the end of our days. That is what this book taught me." ( )