Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

6 reviews

brooklynchaise's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and perspective changing. It challenged me to think about mortality and the things that make life worth living, especially at the end. I will definitely recommend this book to others and reflect on its contents as I and my family grow older 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit

haleyisamess's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Very informative read. I probably would have enjoyed this more as a medical professional. Listening on audiobook, it was easy for me to a sometimes glaze over the medical jargon. The last half of the book was fantastic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Excrement

ulmaridae's review

"People die only once. They have no experience to draw from. They need doctors and nurses who are willing to have the hard discussions and say what they have seen."

"I am leery of sugessting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident ultimately have their way in our lives. But the point is that we are not helpless either. Courage is the strength to recognise both realities. We have room to act, to shape our stories. Though as time goes on, it is within narrower and narrower confines. A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities that go beyond merely being safe and living longer. That the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life. That we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversation in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone's lives."

"The vital questions are the same. What is your understanding of the situation and it's potential outcomes? What are your fears, and what are your hopes? What are the tradeoffs that you are willing to make, and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?"

"The goal is not a good death. It is a good life, all the way to the end"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Vomit and Excrement

Minor: Pregnancy

gtrue21's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Abandonment, Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Death, Confinement, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Forced institutionalization

impeachnixon's review

challenging dark funny informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Forced institutionalization

jmcordero's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization