Extreme measures : finding a better path to the end of life / Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD.
- Author
- Zitter, Jessica Nutik
- Published
- New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First trade paperback edition.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Contents
- Alone in the trenches -- The end-of-life conveyor belt -- Abandoned in a sea of options -- The illusion collusion -- Where we come from -- Who we are -- The personal toll -- Sharing the journey.
- Summary
- "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."--‡cProvided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780525533412 (pbk.)
0525533419 - Note
- Originally published: 2017.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-324) and index.
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