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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

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Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Product Name: Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 02/21/2017 00:00
ISBN: 1101982551
Pages: 352
Reading Level: Adult
SKU: 9781101982556
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      An ICU and Palliative Care specialist featured in the Netflix documentary Extremis offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter’s journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another—a doctor who prioritizes the patient’s values and preferences in an environment where the default choice is the extreme use of technology. In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms the End-of-Life Conveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care facilities to suffer their final days alone, confused, and often in pain. In her work Zitter has learned what patients fear more than death itself: the prospect of dying badly. She builds bridges between patients and caregivers, formulates plans to allay patients’ pain and anxiety, and enlists the support of loved ones so that life can end well, even beautifully. Filled with rich patient stories that make a compelling medical narrative, Extreme Measures enlarges the national conversation as it thoughtfully and compassionately examines an experience that defines being human.

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      Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
      Product Name: Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
      Author: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
      Language: English
      Format: Hardcover
      Publication Date: 02/21/2017 00:00
      ISBN: 9781101982556
      Pages: 352
      Reading Level: Adult
      Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
      Product Name: Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
      Author: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
      Language: English
      Format: Hardcover
      Publication Date: 02/21/2017 00:00
      ISBN: 1101982551
      Pages: 352
      Reading Level: Adult

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