Letting Go
What should medicine do when it cant save your life?
by Atul Gawande
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
I'd quote from it but the whole thing is so beautifully written, and an important message. I have seen the same tragedy played out, and it is my most sincere wish that I not die trached and PEGed, tubed and vented in an ICU as I have seen so many times.
What should medicine do when it cant save your life?
by Atul Gawande
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
I'd quote from it but the whole thing is so beautifully written, and an important message. I have seen the same tragedy played out, and it is my most sincere wish that I not die trached and PEGed, tubed and vented in an ICU as I have seen so many times.