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Bigham, Blair.
Terminal care.
Coma -- Patients.
Right to die.
Persistent vegetative state -- Patients.
Death.
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Death interrupted : how modern medicine is complicating the way we die / Blair Bigham.
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Bigham, Blair.
Anansi, 2022.
Call #:
616
.028
B592d
Subjects
Terminal care.
Coma -- Patients.
Right to die.
Persistent vegetative state -- Patients.
Death.
ISBN:
9781487008543 (pbk.)
Description:
289 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Dr. Blair Bigham is a journalist, scientist and attending emergency and ICU physician who trained at McMaster and Stanford universities. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and an associate scientist at St. Michael's Hospital. Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones, and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves. In 'Death Interrupted,' Dr. Blair Bigham seeks to help readers understand the options facing them at the end of their lives. Through conversations with end-of-life professionals -- including ethicists, social workers, and nurses and doctors who practise palliative care -- and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms, and the ICU, Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying and answers the tough questions facing us all."--From publisher.
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