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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/1101982551 For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist 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. In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms the End-of-Life  Conveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care facilities to suffer their final days alone, confused, and often in pain. In her work Zitter has learned what patients fear more than death itself: the prospect of dying badly. She builds bridges bet
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For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist 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. In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms the End-of-Life  Conveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care facilities to suffer their final days alone, confused, and often in pain. In her work Zitter has learned what patients fear more than death itself: the prospect of dying badly. She builds bridges bet
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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/B01KGZVQOM For readers of Being Mortal
and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist 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—tobecome an ICU physician—an imagined herself
swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But the during herfirst
code shefound 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 chats Ziter’snbspjourney from wanting to be one kind of hero to
becoming another—adoctor who prioritizes the patient’svalues and preferences in an
environment where the default choce is the extreme useof technology. In our current
medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms theEnd-of-
Life nbspConveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care
facilities to sufer ther final days alone, confused, and often in pain. In her work Zitter
has learned what patients fear more than death itself: theprospect of dying badly. She builds
bridges between patients and caregivers, formulates plans to allay patients’pain and
anxiety, and enlists the support of loved ones so that life can end well, even beautifully. Filled with
rich patient stories that make anbspcompelling medical narrative, Exteme
Measures enlrges the national conversation as it thoughtfully and compassionately
examines an experience that defines being human.
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