Best Practice Management & Reimbursement
A Former Hospital CEO tells all on What’s Wrong with American Healthcare. What every American needs to know is a tell-all book revealing health-care industry secrets to explain concepts and advise how to survive in America’s ever-changing health-care delivery system. Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael is a spiritual visionary.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"By this, I mean a complete synopsis of how to best pay for 'my parent's care', a complete recommendation list of what types of facilities, such as Acute Rehab Facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, Nursing Homes, etc."
"The healthcare industry owes a debt of gratitude to Josh Luke, and you owe it to yourself (and your family) to take a good long look at this subject matter."
"Ideas for negotiating provider fees, a well-informed estimation of what healthcare changes to expect with the current political administration and a step-by-step guide for assessing long-term care for loved ones."
"The Ex-Acute does a great job of informing the reader of not only the ACA, but of our health care system as a whole, with a few anecdotes to emphasize key lessons and takeaways."
"Ex-Acute balances the overview of the current state of healthcare, especially in the post-ACA era, with the perfect amount of in-depth knowledge and expertise to provide all types of readers valuable information."
"READ THIS BOOK!"
"Not only was Dr Luke's book was easy to read and understand, his stories added extra value by creating visual images and emotional connections."
"This book is a great way read!"
Proven techniques for reading people through their words Tried and tested strategies for boosting your body language reading skills The importance of mastering people analyzing skills Powerful tips for reading other people’s behavior for developing sounder interpersonal relationships Telltale signs of deception, warmth, enthusiasm, flexibility and several others thoughts, feelings and emotions A complete body language cheat sheet with interpretations. Learn to take control of your and other people’s action by learning how to read and analyze people accurately that will result to a more rewarding, gratifying, and fulfilling life.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book concentrates on opening the psychological ingredients that sort out the human identity."
"I have seen a lot of films and tv shows about that and always was wondering how people analyze other people."
"This book is one of the best book on How to Analyze People."
"The book encourages us to understand and admit why people have a behaves in a certain way and how to observe and assess them in a good way."
"This book is awesome."
"The author has written very well and base on a good researched."
"My favorite part was analyzing my own personality type."
"I gain so much information in this book."
Shatteringly personal, and yet wholly universal, she offers a brave road map for anyone navigating illness while presenting physicians with a new paradigm and rationale for embracing the emotional bond between doctor and patient. "In a gut-wrenching memoir approaching Job-level suffering, Awdish recounts her ordeal as a doctor-turned-patient and the many changes in her perspective and practice of medicine...Awdish’s emotional tenor is electric (and understandable): angry, anxious, self-pitying, vulnerable, even terrified. "A compassionate and critical look at medicine and illness from both a doctor’s and a patient’s perspective...Awdish has written a unique and insightful memoir." "Dr. Rana Awdish brings the much-needed voice of the patient to life in a courageous retelling of her catastrophic illness and stunning revelations of the major disconnect between the communication caregivers deliver and what patients need. Dr. Awdish's compassion for both her patients and those providing care for patients comes from profound insight into the vulnerability that illness imposes and the suffering that asks for acknowledgement and understanding." As a fellow physician and mom, I founded myself immersed in In Shock , both by Rana Awdish’s description of her heartbreaking losses as well as her triumphs of making it back to life repeatedly, to ultimately tell this story so beautifully. She reminds us all of the critical importance of maintaining our “human-ness” when we are taking care of the very ill." ―Lynn E. Fiellin, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. I was so moved by Dr. Awdish’s courage, resilience and passion to improve medical practice.” ―Jeffrey Millstein, MD, Penn Medicine. "When Rana Awdish's brief description of her medical experiences was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, one leading health care expert (who did not know Rana) tweeted that everyone who takes care of patients should read it. "In Shock is a brilliantly written account of Awdish's near death experience and what it is like to be on the "other side" of medicine. DR. RANA AWDISH is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a Critical Care Physician. Dr. Awdish is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Her life hung in the balance for weeks, and it really took years of ups and downs after devastating setbacks for her to finally recover. I have read several books similar to this, and indeed it reminded me a bit of 1991 movie staring William Hurt called The Doctor. In that movie an arrogant doctor finds himself suddenly becoming a patient and the experience humbles him and changes his life. Dr. Awdish did not need humbling before her experience - but what reminded me so much of that movie was that she was forever changed afterwards and that she was able to share her amazing insights with us. She describes how devastating it is for anyone to find themselves suddenly very ill and being without control and how normal, healthy people don't, or maybe can't understand how that can feel. As Dr. Awdish so eloquently stated: "I had lost my sense of myself as a strong, capable, independent person." At the same time, she goes on to explain that this is not necessarily the case - you can feel empathy and show caring; and sometimes you just need to be more conscious of things you say and do in front of your patient. It is entirely possible to feel someone's pain acknowledge their suffering, hold it in our hands and support them with our present without depleting ourselves, without clouding our judgment. Physicians are prone to all the same human emotions of pride and guilt and denial and shame that distort our reason."
"Its message is that so many physicians, either because they haven't been trained, or out of simple arrogance, weariness, absence of empathy, often fail their patients and do real harm by the things they say, or don't say (or their failure to make any effort to connect.). These and other gems ofd thoughtlessness, insolence, ignorance, are re-listed in italics near the end of the book as a kind of rounding-up summary of so many of the terrible encounters she had with physicians when she herself became a patient. These physicians have been trained to work as hard as possible to push back against death, but they have not been trained to stand side by side with the patient to face death, inevitability, and pain. I have read many books by author physicians (Atul Gawande, Abraham Verghese, Sherwin Nuland, and many others) but I have never encountered anything as harrowing to read as this book -- not because of the blood-and-guts (though there is much of that here too) but because of the depth of the grief depicted. The book narrates many of the harms done to patients, but some of the greatest sorrows were those of their doctors."
Best Communications Law
Birth Order’s Impact on Personality: Did you know that being the last born or first born affects who you are today? In chapter four, we will discuss what impact this has, so that you can instantly understand those around you just with the simple knowledge of the order they were born. In chapter five, you will learn how to recognize the limiting beliefs of other people and draw conclusions about how this impacts who they are.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are a beginning psychologist or a person who wants to learn to understand and read people better, this book is for you."
"Body language provides an amazing amount of information on what other people are thinking if you know what to look for."
"Each signal has a specific and definite meaning that will reveal a world of information about others."
"If you are interested to know & get better understand about people’s nonverbal & verbal actions or you want to analyze them within a short time frame, then this read will give you better ideas, guides, tips and various methods."
"I really liked this reading that what fully loaded with lots of info, guides, outlines & step by step instructions."
"This is book has everything that will help you get better understanding."
"Whether someone's lying to you, hitting on you, or bossing you around, you can read their intent and emotional state in their body language if you know what to pay attention to."
"This is an amazing book that will help you to learn about how to analyze someone."
Best Health Risk Assessment
The general public harbors assumptions about medical care that encourage overuse, assumptions like it’s always better to fix the problem, sooner (or newer) is always better, or it never hurts to get more information. Drawing on his twenty-five years of medical practice and research, Dr. Welch notes that while economics and lawyers contribute to the excesses of American medicine, the problem is essentially created when the general public clings to these powerful assumptions about the value of tests and treatments—a number of which are just plain wrong. “Avoiding medical jargon, Welch speaks directly to the layperson and focuses on certain assumptions that have increased consumption in a market-driven society; some of which have become so ingrained by popular media that refuting them seems downright scandalous… Welch’s words, though wise beyond money, border on sacrilege in a country of generally healthy people who have developed an expensive health-care habit and who are expected to support a lucrative health-care industry. Welch’s conversational style makes his prescription for better health an easy pill to swallow.”. — Booklist , starred review. “A bright, lively discussion of the excesses of medical care to which patients often unwittingly go due to certain false assumptions… Welch demonstrates the flaws in these assumptions. “Gil Welch's latest book shows us exactly how too much medical care can be harmful and even deadly.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I wish I wouldn't have read this book. I started reading the book when my 80 year-old mother went in for major back surgery. I breezed through the first four chapters during her five hours of surgery and two hours in post-op care. The tone of the book was witty, so I was chucking and nodding my head as I read about data overload, U-shaped curves, the general uselessness of screening, the harm that false alarms can cause, the analogy of types of cancers to barn-yard animals: cancer that will never cause a problem are turtles, cancers that can be fought are rabbits, and cancers you can do nothing about are birds. Then he talked about needless surgery due to back pain, and how the majority of the time it doesn't work. But I felt better when I read the statement: "Back surgery should only be done on patients who don't have back pain". I started reading again a few weeks later only to begin Chapter 7 and the assumption: It's all About Avoiding Death."
"I love this book!"
"Conversational and accessible, Less Medicine More Health is an excellent fly over of our dysfunctional health care delivery system."
"I appreciate Dr. Welch's counterpoint to the general assumption in American society that doctors are always right, more testing is a good thing, and doing something is better than doing nothing."
"We do not have "health care.""
"This is the third book in a series of books either authored or co-authored by Welch making the argument that we suffer potentially serious consequences from overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The central points Welch makes in all of them are important ones, for both our personal health and the country's fiscal health: overtreatment is rife, dangerous, and hard to avoid."
"Excellent."
"It's a little technical but since it was recommended by a doctor I'm going to finish it."
Best Medical History & Records
From Carol J. Buck, the bestselling Step-by-Step Medical Coding is a practical, easy-to-use resource that shows you exactly how to code using all current coding sets. Real-world coding reports (cleared of any confidential information) simulate the reports you will encounter as a coder and help you apply coding principles to actual cases. A workbook corresponds to the textbook and offers review and practice with more than 1,200 theory, practical, and report exercises (odd-numbered answers provided in appendix) to reinforce understanding of medical coding. Medical Coding Online uses animations, photographs, drawings, narrated slide shows, case-based exercises, pop-up definitions, and professional insights to reinforce coding concepts from the Step-by-Step text. Carol J. Buck, BS, MS, CPC, Program Director, Medical Secretarial Programs, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was preparing my self to sit and pass the CPC exam but I feel hindered."
"I got this book somewhere in the beginning of January and now when I am half through it I discovered that my book missing pages 545-608 and has two sets of pages 609-672."
"A very helpful and excellent addition for any medical coding class."
"Works for my sister, i ordered it for her."
"for a class poorly taught."
"Great price!"
"The 2011 version is much cheaper since it is not up to date, but I wanted to learn the ins and outs of how to code and that is what I am getting."
Best Medicaid & Medicare
Get tips on navigating the Medicare maze Determine the best time to enroll—and how Save money by avoiding costly mistakes. For 18 years, as a senior editor of AARP's publications, she wrote hundreds of articles on Medicare and served as its online "Ask Ms. Medicare" columnist, answering thousands of questions sent by Medicare beneficiaries across the nation.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Despite being a ‘current’ volume much of the information is out of sync with current requirements."
"Highly recommend for the ease & amount of valuable information Patricia provides."
"Fast shipping - easy to read - helpful in beginning your quest with Medicare, and the different parts of it."
"I found this book very helpful."
"Great book."
"This book is exactly what I needed and answered a lot of my questions about Medicare."
"I got this book for my husband who has been freaking out about how to make an educated decision about our impending foray into retirement."
"Only in Medicare part D there is some info, the rest is irrelevant."
Best Health Care Delivery
In Being Mortal , bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. If you said “true,” you’d be right, of course, but that’s a statement that demands an asterisk, a “but.” “We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine,” writes Atul Gawande, a surgeon (at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston) and a writer (at the New Yorker). And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive.” Through interviews with doctors, stories from and about health care providers (such as the woman who pioneered the notion of “assisted living” for the elderly)—and eventually, by way of the story of his own father’s dying, Gawande examines the cracks in the system of health care to the aged (i.e. 97 percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics) and to the seriously ill who might have different needs and expectations than the ones family members predict. (One striking example: the terminally ill former professor who told his daughter that “quality of life” for him meant the ongoing ability to enjoy chocolate ice cream and watch football on TV. And in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You want Robert E. Lee... someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can’t.” In his compassionate, learned way, Gawande shows all of us—doctors included—how mortality must be faced, with both heart and mind. “ Being Mortal , Atul Gawande's masterful exploration of aging, death, and the medical profession's mishandling of both, is his best and most personal book yet.” ― Boston Globe. For more than a decade, Atul Gawande has explored the fault lines of medicine . combining his years of experience as a surgeon with his gift for fluid, seemingly effortless storytelling . has provided us with a moving and clear-eyed look at aging and death in our society, and at the harms we do in turning it into a medical problem, rather than a human one.” ― The New York Review of Books. “A deeply affecting, urgently important book--one not just about dying and the limits of medicine but about living to the last with autonomy, dignity, and joy.” ―Katherine Boo. Gawande's book is not of the kind that some doctors write, reminding us how grim the fact of death can be. Rather, he shows how patients in the terminal phase of their illness can maintain important qualities of life.” ― Wall Street Journal (Best Books of 2014). “ Being Mortal left me tearful, angry, and unable to stop talking about it for a week. A surgeon himself, Gawande is eloquent about the inadequacy of medical school in preparing doctors to confront the subject of death with their patients. “We have come to medicalize aging, frailty, and death, treating them as if they were just one more clinical problem to overcome. Being Mortal is not only wise and deeply moving, it is an essential and insightful book for our times, as one would expect from Atul Gawande, one of our finest physician writers.” ―Oliver Sacks. “A great read that leaves you better equipped to face the future, and without making you feel like you just took your medicine.” ― Mother Jones (Best Books of 2014). One hopes it is the spark that ignites some revolutionary changes in a field of medicine that ultimately touches each of us.” ― Shelf Awareness (Best Books of 2014). “A needed call to action, a cautionary tale of what can go wrong, and often does, when a society fails to engage in a sustained discussion about aging and dying.” ― San Francisco Chronicle.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"People of any age want the right to lock their doors, set the temperature they want, dress how they like, eat what they want, admit visitors only when they're in the mood. Yet, nursing homes (and even assisted living communities) are geared toward making these decisions for people in order to keep them safe, gain government funds, and ensure a routine for the facility. In addition, Dr. Gawande shows how end-of-life physical conditions are most often treated as medical crises needing to be "fixed," instead of managed for quality of life when treatment has become futile. He tells a great story of a doctor who convinced a nursing home to bring in two dogs, four cats and one hundred birds!"
"In reading many of his previous books I found he always asked questions: Why do we do things; for what purpose; is this working to achieve the best results for the patient in his physical and cultural circumstance? In speaking of elder care he sadly points out that "Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm and suffering we inflict on people and has denied them the basic comforts they need most". He looks at the "Dying Role" as the end approaches describing it as the patient's ability to "share memories, pass on wisdom and keepsakes, settle relationships, establish legacies and make peace with their God. Gawande shares his deep seated feelings in this book by revealing personal vignettes of how friends and family coped with these powerful and challenging issues."
Best Public Health
And scientists are only just discovering quite how much it has to offer; new research shows that gut bacteria can play a role in everything from obesity and allergies to Alzheimer’s. Beginning with the personal experience of illness that inspired her research, and going on to explain everything from the basics of nutrient absorption to the latest science linking bowel bacteria with depression, Enders has written an entertaining, informative health handbook. ‘Enders’ gut manifesto calls on its readers to celebrate their lower bodies’ achievements, rather than apologise for them’ The Guardian. "Enders’s wonder at the strange ways of the gut is matched only by her incredulity at the limited public knowledge on the subject." The New York Times "With a great sense of humor and ample enthusiasm, Enders explains everything readers did and didn’t want to know about their innards ... this book defies boring. "This primer is everything you ever wanted to know about the gut (and then some), chattily and accessibly written in a uniquely Millennial and matter of fact way. " Gut's probe into the human digestive system might be seen as an earnest younger sibling to Gulp , Mary Roach’s 2013 investigation into the same subject. The comparison isn’t meant as a slight; Enders swaps out Roach’s knowing wryness with a kind of puplike enthusiasm for the complex mechanisms that convert food into a body’s energy and waste without our even thinking about it."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Enders has a lively sense of curiosity and humor, and an endearing habit of anticipating readers' questions and answering them with great detail and patience. Perhaps the strangest was the blithe claim that salmonellosis in German eggs is caused by farmers buying cheap grain from Africa, where random turtles walk about in the fields pooping on seeds. Recently, Germany has spawned numerous European outbreaks of salmonellosis in the old-fashioned way: poorly regulated high-density factory farming with birds crammed into tiny, filthy cages."
"Good follow-ups: This is your brain on parasites(Kathleen McAuliffe), Immune(Catherine Carver), and An epidemic of Absence(Moises Velasquez-Manoff)."
"i was super exited to read it!But the content is too scientific and hard to read and understand."
"Giulia Enders answers questions you would not even ask your mother; what should a normal stool look like for example."
"I love this book, and have read, highlighted and written all over my hard copy."
"Full of facts and written (and translated !)."
"Loved this book."
"For those who want to know more about the part of our body that affects our health the most, this is a must read."
Best Hospital Administration
In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right. Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2009 : With a title like The Checklist Manifesto , it would be natural to expect that Atul Gawande is bent on revolutionizing that most loved-hated activity of workers the world over: the to-do list. This is a toppling revelation made all the more powerful by Gawande's skillful blend of anecdote and practical wisdom as he profiles his own experience as a surgeon and seeks out a wide range of other professions to show that a team is only as strong as its checklist--by his definition, a way of organizing that empowers people at all levels to put their best knowledge to use, communicate at crucial points, and get things done. Over the past decade, through his writing in The New Yorker magazine and his books Complications and Better , Atul Gawande has made a name for himself as a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. Failure in the modern world, he writes, is really about the second of these errors, and he walks us through a series of examples from medicine showing how the routine tasks of surgeons have now become so incredibly complicated that mistakes of one kind or another are virtually inevitable: it's just too easy for an otherwise competent doctor to miss a step, or forget to ask a key question or, in the stress and pressure of the moment, to fail to plan properly for every eventuality. Harvard Medical School prof and New Yorker scribe Gawande ( Complications ) notes that the high-pressure complexities of modern professional occupations overwhelm even their best-trained practitioners; he argues that a disciplined adherence to essential procedures—by ticking them off a list—can prevent potentially fatal mistakes and corner cutting. He's at his best delivering his usual rich, insightful reportage on medical practice, where checklists have the subversive effect of puncturing the cult of physician infallibility and fostering communication and teamwork.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Dr. Gawande's book should be required reading for anyone not only in the professional world, but anyone just trying to make their life a little easier and their task management more efficient."
"Gawande does a masterful job of making easy to understand the incredible value of checklists."
"I've read all 4 of Gawande's books and would read another if he made it."
"I have been reading gawande's books since reading"Being Mortal,"."
"Dr. Gawande has done a great job of illustrating the importance of checklist use in the ever increasingly complex world of medicine."
"My wife is going through cancer treatment She finds reading this book relaxes her."
"A great book with simple but profound advice."
"Love this book - well written, and will help you think about problem solving from a different perspective."
Best Health Policy
In Being Mortal , bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. If you said “true,” you’d be right, of course, but that’s a statement that demands an asterisk, a “but.” “We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine,” writes Atul Gawande, a surgeon (at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston) and a writer (at the New Yorker). And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive.” Through interviews with doctors, stories from and about health care providers (such as the woman who pioneered the notion of “assisted living” for the elderly)—and eventually, by way of the story of his own father’s dying, Gawande examines the cracks in the system of health care to the aged (i.e. 97 percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics) and to the seriously ill who might have different needs and expectations than the ones family members predict. (One striking example: the terminally ill former professor who told his daughter that “quality of life” for him meant the ongoing ability to enjoy chocolate ice cream and watch football on TV. And in a war that you cannot win, you don’t want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You want Robert E. Lee... someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can’t.” In his compassionate, learned way, Gawande shows all of us—doctors included—how mortality must be faced, with both heart and mind. “ Being Mortal , Atul Gawande's masterful exploration of aging, death, and the medical profession's mishandling of both, is his best and most personal book yet.” ― Boston Globe. For more than a decade, Atul Gawande has explored the fault lines of medicine . combining his years of experience as a surgeon with his gift for fluid, seemingly effortless storytelling . has provided us with a moving and clear-eyed look at aging and death in our society, and at the harms we do in turning it into a medical problem, rather than a human one.” ― The New York Review of Books. “A deeply affecting, urgently important book--one not just about dying and the limits of medicine but about living to the last with autonomy, dignity, and joy.” ―Katherine Boo. Gawande's book is not of the kind that some doctors write, reminding us how grim the fact of death can be. Rather, he shows how patients in the terminal phase of their illness can maintain important qualities of life.” ― Wall Street Journal (Best Books of 2014). “ Being Mortal left me tearful, angry, and unable to stop talking about it for a week. A surgeon himself, Gawande is eloquent about the inadequacy of medical school in preparing doctors to confront the subject of death with their patients. “We have come to medicalize aging, frailty, and death, treating them as if they were just one more clinical problem to overcome. Being Mortal is not only wise and deeply moving, it is an essential and insightful book for our times, as one would expect from Atul Gawande, one of our finest physician writers.” ―Oliver Sacks. “A great read that leaves you better equipped to face the future, and without making you feel like you just took your medicine.” ― Mother Jones (Best Books of 2014). One hopes it is the spark that ignites some revolutionary changes in a field of medicine that ultimately touches each of us.” ― Shelf Awareness (Best Books of 2014). “A needed call to action, a cautionary tale of what can go wrong, and often does, when a society fails to engage in a sustained discussion about aging and dying.” ― San Francisco Chronicle.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"People of any age want the right to lock their doors, set the temperature they want, dress how they like, eat what they want, admit visitors only when they're in the mood. Yet, nursing homes (and even assisted living communities) are geared toward making these decisions for people in order to keep them safe, gain government funds, and ensure a routine for the facility. In addition, Dr. Gawande shows how end-of-life physical conditions are most often treated as medical crises needing to be "fixed," instead of managed for quality of life when treatment has become futile. He tells a great story of a doctor who convinced a nursing home to bring in two dogs, four cats and one hundred birds!"
"In reading many of his previous books I found he always asked questions: Why do we do things; for what purpose; is this working to achieve the best results for the patient in his physical and cultural circumstance? In speaking of elder care he sadly points out that "Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm and suffering we inflict on people and has denied them the basic comforts they need most". He looks at the "Dying Role" as the end approaches describing it as the patient's ability to "share memories, pass on wisdom and keepsakes, settle relationships, establish legacies and make peace with their God. Gawande shares his deep seated feelings in this book by revealing personal vignettes of how friends and family coped with these powerful and challenging issues."