Saturday, March 2, 2013

Glenwood Gardens 911 Call



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).

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“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?

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