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emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
This was an incredible book that is about geriatrics and dying, but focused most profoundly on how our approach of healthcare and medicine fails us by being focused on fixing instead of helping and how care for elderly, disabled and palliative patients undermine their dignity and wellness for the sake of efficiency. It raises a lot of questions around whether doing everything is the best option and how by ignoring the inevitability of death we rob the sick from what they want in their last days and their loved ones from proper conversations and closure. I highly recommend it to those who work in medicine and helping professions as well as anyone with aging family. But most of all to everyone as all of us will come to face mortality in both our own lives and those we love and this is a guide to conversations discussions that we often neglect.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Dementia, and Cancer
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