#BeingMortal - Hard Conversations @agawande.bsky.social
"...understanding the finitude of one’s time could be a gift." #hospice #palliativecare
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@masscommons.bsky.social#BeingMortal - Hard Conversations @agawande.bsky.social
"...understanding the finitude of one’s time could be a gift." #hospice #palliativecare
@masscommons.bsky.social#BeingMortal - Letting Go @agawande.bsky.social
“Our responsibility, in #medicine, is to deal w/ human beings as they are. People die only once. They have no experience to draw on. They need doctors & nurses who are willing to have the hard discussions.”
@masscommons.bsky.social#BeingMortal - A Better Life @agawande.bsky.social
“The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life. Sickness & old age make the struggle hard enough. The professionals & institutions we turn to should not make it worse.”
@masscommons.bsky.social#BeingMortal - Assistance by @agawande.bsky.social
"...our elderly are left with a controlled & supervised institutional existence, a medically designed answer to unfixable problems, a life designed to be safe but empty of anything they care about.”
@masscommons.bsky.social#BeingMortal - Dependence by @agawande.bsky.social
“We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals...but never the goal that matters (most): how to make life worth living when we’re weak & frail & can’t fend for ourselves anymore.”
@reverentridge.orgThanks, for this! Sounds exactly what @agawande.bsky.social described happened to Mr. Lazaroff in the intro to his book, #beingmortal. Now I know the term for it!
@jamescurleysongs.bsky.social@masscommons.bsky.social#BeingMortal - Things Fall Apart @agawande.bsky.social
“Old age is not a diagnosis. There is always some final proximate cause.... But in truth no single disease leads to the end; the culprit is just the accumulated crumbling of one’s bodily systems….”