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The Best Care Possible
Ira Byock
A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
Avery
March 2012
On Sale: March 15, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 1583334599
EAN: 9781583334591
Kindle: B005GSZJ16
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Non-Fiction
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care
illuminates one of the most important and controversial
ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care
through the end of life. It is harder to die in this country than ever before.
Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would
prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days
fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by
high-tech procedures and a philosophy to "fight disease and
illness at all cost." Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care
physicians in the country, argues that end-of-life care is
among the biggest national crises facing us today. In
addressing the crisis, politics has trumped reason. Dr.
Byock explains that to ensure the best possible care for
those we love-and eventually ourselves- we must not only
remake our healthcare system, we must also move past our
cultural aversion to talking about death and acknowledge the
fact of mortality once and for all. Dr. Byock describes what palliative care really is, and-with
a doctor's compassion and insight-puts a human face on the
issues by telling richly moving, heart-wrenching, and
uplifting stories of real people during the most difficult
moments in their lives. Byock takes us inside his busy,
cutting-edge academic medical center to show what the best
care at the end of life can look like and how doctors and
nurses can profoundly shape the way families experience loss. Like books by Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, The Best
Care Possible is a compelling meditation on medicine and
ethics told through page-turning, life or death medical
drama. It is passionate and timely, and it has the power to
lead a new kind of national conversation.
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