Levels of service available at Glenwood
Gardens:
“How Doctors Die” by Ken Murray, Best Essays of 2012, says that doctors do not die like the rest of
us. What’s unusual about them is how little treatment they get compared
to the rest of us.
Doctors know enough about death to know what all people fear
most: dying in pain and dying
alone. They want to be sure, that when
the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen—that they will never
experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in
an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done
right).
….
“How has it come to this—that doctors administer so much
care that they wouldn’t want for themselves?
The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.”
Aren’t we entitled to
die like doctors?
