Being Mortal Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande | Health, Mind & Body |
ISBN: 1781253943 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingjeniwrenwing of Pambula, New South Wales Australia on 4/27/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingjeniwrenwing from Pambula, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, April 27, 2017
This is an important book that I found very relevant to my working life in aged care. It affirms the idea the nursing homes can be a bleak place especially for independently minded people who lose their physical abilities. We have sadly come to a point where we are obsessed with risk and deny people choices about their quality of life over safety issues. The author devotes a section about pet therapy having cats, dogs and birds in homes but realistically although this sounds ideal in theory but from what I see here in Australia with limited funding it just would not happen. Sadly too the author does highlight that medicine has now reached a point that keeping patients alive is paramount , no matter what the cost when all too often the treatments at end of life have limited value and only prolong suffering and the inevitable.

Journal Entry 2 by wingjeniwrenwing at Greigs Flat, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, April 27, 2017

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Journal Entry 3 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, April 27, 2017
Thanks heaps for this wishlist book, jeniwren. It's an important issue, and one that everyone should think about.

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