Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
- ISBN-10
- 0525533419
- ISBN-13
- 9780525533412
- Series
- Extreme Measures
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-08-24
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Authors
- M.D., Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter
Description
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Currently, the old and the ill are intubated, catheterised, and even shelved away in care facilities to live out their final days alone, confused, and sometimes in pain. In her work, Zitter has learned to understand that what patients fear more than death itself is the prospect of dying alone. Filled with the kinds of rich patient stories that make the most compelling medical narratives, Extreme Measures thoughtfully and compassionately examines an experience that defines being human.
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