Volandes, Angelo E.
Summary: "There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 VOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging VolandesWarraich, Haider
Summary: "There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland's classic How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.9 WARLee, Barbara Coombs
Summary: "...Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compassion & Choices 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Byock, Ira.
Summary: A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life. It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BYOGawande, Atul
Summary: Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.17 GAWHandeland, Lori
Summary: "Frankie Sicari is roused from sleep late one night by a key rattling in the front door lock. It's her ex-husband, Charley Blackwell: a man she hasn't seen for nearly a quarter of a century. What's baffling is that Charley seems to think they are still married, and has no recollection of his current wife, Hannah. When medical tests reveal shocking findings, Frankie finds herself reluctantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANConnelly, Michael Doring
Summary: "In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and procedures, instead of caring holistically for the person. Accordingly, many of us will likely spend our final weeks in long-term care facilities or an ICU. Dying at home, peacefully, and surrounded by family is almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ConnellySmith, Fran
Summary: "There's a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care-nearly 44 percent of all deaths-and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospiceis now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 SMIButler, Katy
Summary: "An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggleto allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BUTSummary: Just because we can extend life, should we? Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care every year. Medicare alone costs taxpayers over
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Rohr, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Action and Contemplation 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.8 ROHSummary: Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEIKnutson, Lois D.
Summary: "Practical help, encouragement, and spiritual direction for family members or friends who are caregivers for their elderly loved ones"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.029 KNUTFitzpatrick, Jeanne.
Summary: "Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Schneiderman, L. J.
Contents: Putting in writing what you want (and don't want) -- What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing" -- Facts and statistics -- Empathy and the imagination -- Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past? -- Hoping for a miracle -- What could be wrong with hope? -- Medical futility -- Beyond futility to an ethic of care -- Future decisions we may all have to make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 SCHPicoult, Jodi
Summary: When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Picoult 2012Strawser, Jessica
Summary: "A musician facing the untimely end of his career. An end-of-life doula with everything, and nothing, to lose. A Star Is Born meets Me Before You in this powerful novel by the author of A Million Reasons Why. As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston's job-her calling, her purpose, her life-is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRSummary: FROM THE PUBLISHER : After the Nancy Cruzan case was decided by the Supreme Court in 1990, and ultimately resolved by the Courts of the State of Missouri, the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging nutrition and hydration appeared to many to be as noncontroversial as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. Even the Catholic Church held that, although there should be a presumption...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 CASRehm, Diane
Summary: "A series of interviews on the topics of end-of-life care and the right-to-die movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 REHFerrer, Gustavo
Summary: "When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Yet it's a situation millions of us face every year with virtually no sort of preparation or guidance. With Graceful Exit, Dr. Gustavo Ferrer offers an all-in-one resource for anyone tasked with managing the end-of-life care of a loved one" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2018
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Summary: Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction PicHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDSummary: Nurses must help patients find meaning at the end of life, focusing on living [while] acknowledging death... What we as professionals do during this end-of-life period matters greatly to those whom we touch. Focusing primarily on the supportive and spiritual aspects of terminal care rather than on the physical aspects, this program discusses advance directives (living will, health care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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McFarlane, Rodger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998