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At Peace

Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life

Author: Samuel Harrington and Dr Samuel Harrington, MD  

At Peace
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The authoritative, informative, and practical follow up to BEING MORTAL, on end of life care

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The authoritative, informative, and practical follow up to BEING MORTAL, on end of life care

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The authoritative, informative, and practical follow up to BEING MORTAL, on end-of-life care for patients over the age of 65.

Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions while undergoing painful procedures, instead of having the better and more peaceful death they desired.

At Peace outlines specific active and passive steps that older patients and their health care proxies can take to insure loved ones pass their last days comfortably at home and/or in hospice, when further aggressive care is inappropriate.

Through Dr. Harrington's own experience with his parents and patients, he describes the terminal patterns of the six most common chronic diseases; how to recognize a terminal diagnosis even when the doctor is not clear about it; how to have the hard conversation about end-of-life wishes; how to minimize painful treatments; when to seek hospice care; and how to deal with dementia and other special issues.

Informed by more than thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Harrington came to understand that the American health care system wasn't designed to treat the aging population with care and compassion. His work as a hospice trustee and later as a hospital trustee informed his passion for helping patients make appropriate end-of-life decisions.

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“Dr. Sam Harrington has provided an invaluable road map for all of us facing the challenge of critical end-of-life decisions for friends, family, and ultimately, ourselves. He demystifies medical terminology with an experienced, transparent, and literate guide for boomers like myself, and for our aging parents. How to have the conversation? When to decide that a caring choice is the decision to avoid repeated hospitalizations and over-testing? Here is a medical expert who puts patients and their welfare first. This is an invaluable addition to the literature.-- Andrea Mitchell, anchor and correspondent for NBC News”

Dr. Sam Harrington has provided an invaluable road map for all of us facing the challenge of critical end-of-life decisions for friends, family, and ultimately, ourselves. He demystifies medical terminology with an experienced, transparent, and literate guide for boomers like myself, and for our aging parents. How to have the conversation? When to decide that a caring choice is the decision to avoid repeated hospitalizations and over-testing? Here is a medical expert who puts patients and their welfare first. This is an invaluable addition to the literature.--Andrea Mitchell, anchor and correspondent for NBC News
There is no easy way to approach the literally life-and-death questions that are the focus of Samuel Harrington's book. But his spare and graceful clinical tone conveys a deeply humane perspective on choices we all will face. This is a book of wisdom and value for people at any stage of life.--James Fallows, The Atlantic
Well researched, clear-eyed, and brilliantly practical. This is a guide and conversation starter for older Americans seeking control and comfort at the end of life. An antidote to modern overmedicalization that's both simple and sage.--Lucy Kalanithi, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and author of the epilogue of When Breath Becomes Air, the book by her late husband, Paul Kalanithi

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About the Author

Samuel Harrington, MD, an honors graduate of Harvard College and the University of Wisconsin Medical School, concentrated his practice at Sibley Memorial Hospital. His work as Sibley's patient safety officer representative to the Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Trustees and his service on the board of trustees of a nonprofit hospice in Washington D.C. has brought Dr. Harrington into the discussion of end of life medical care.

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The authoritative, informative, and practical follow up to BEING MORTAL, on end-of-life care for patients over the age of 65. Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions while undergoing painful procedures, instead of having the better and more peaceful death they desired.At Peace outlines specific active and passive steps that older patients and their health care proxies can take to insure loved ones pass their last days comfortably at home and/or in hospice, when further aggressive care is inappropriate.Through Dr. Harrington's own experience with his parents and patients, he describes the terminal patterns of the six most common chronic diseases; how to recognize a terminal diagnosis even when the doctor is not clear about it; how to have the hard conversation about end-of-life wishes; how to minimize painful treatments; when to seek hospice care; and how to deal with dementia and other special issues.Informed by more than thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Harrington came to understand that the American health care system wasn't designed to treat the aging population with care and compassion. His work as a hospice trustee and later as a hospital trustee informed his passion for helping patients make appropriate end-of-life decisions.

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Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown & Company | Hachette Audio
Published
22nd February 2018
Pages
256
ISBN
9781478917410

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