In Atul Gawandi's Medical Ritual Death, the best-selling author confronts the most difficult challenge of his career: how medicine not only improves life but also hastens its end.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, turning birth, injury, and ...
In Atul Gawandi's Medical Ritual Death, the best-selling author confronts the most difficult challenge of his career: how medicine not only improves life but also hastens its end.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, turning birth, injury, and infectious diseases from dangerous things into things that can be controlled. But in the inevitable conditions of old age and death, the goals of medicine seem to be too much against the interests of the human spirit. Nursing homes have safety equipment, place patients in wheelchairs and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate dying people, and check vital signs long after treatment. Doctors committed to prolonging life continue to perform destructive procedures that end up only increasing suffering.
Gavandi, who is a specialist surgeon, addresses the ultimate limits of his profession and argues that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gavandi offers examples of more liberal models for helping the elderly and dependent people. He examines the types of hospice care to show that a person's final weeks or months may be worthwhile.
Filled with eye-opening research and moving storytelling, Dying with Medical Rituals argues that treatment can enhance our comfort and experience of ending, to provide not just a good life but a good ending. slow
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