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Jan 10, 2016
Carol
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Atul Gawande says there are three kinds of doctors: Paternalistic who tell you what they think you should do; Informative who give you all the facts and then let you make the decisions about what you should do; and my favorite, Interpretive who believe in shared decision making. When it comes time to die I want the shared decision making and I want to have the final say.
This book is excellent and very readable. I was happy to discover that I did it right with my Mom. Much as I didn't want her to ...more
This book is excellent and very readable. I was happy to discover that I did it right with my Mom. Much as I didn't want her to ...more
I feel like I should preface my review by saying that I'm an experienced hospice RN. I come to this book with a wealth of death and dying experience. I had heard about Dr. Gawande and this book and suspected I would like it. That said, I. Could not. Put. This book. Down. I started it late in the evening expecting to read the intro or the first chapter and go to bed. Flash forward and the sun is rising and I'm still reading. It reads like a work of fiction. It's highly accessible with medical exp
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This is essential information for anyone in the US with family members who are aging or facing death, or who is going through that themselves - in other words, everybody in the US. Dr. Gawande describes how US culture, and the culture of the medical system, are uniquely ill-equipped to handle the realities of aging and mortality, and how, as a result, many people suffer unnecessarily at the end of their lives. Then he gives examples of how it can be done differently.
The only quibble I have, and ...more
The only quibble I have, and ...more
What a wonderful book!! I wish everyone would read it--few people are aware that there is no one to care for them and no money to pay for it at the end of life. It's so vital for us to reassess and drastically overhaul health care and long term care to more closely capture quality, not quantity of life. This is beautifully written and so well organized and expressed in this book.
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Very important. Difficult to read, but critical.
Feb 03, 2016
Gerylann Castellano
marked it as to-read
Mar 13, 2015
Iwik Pásková
marked it as to-read
