Analysis Of Atul Gawande 's Being Mortal

“They pulled off her clothes and pumped her chest, put a tube in her airway and forced oxygen into her lungs, and tried to see if they could shock her heart back” (Gawande 133). Such contrast comparison and strong words that would impact the readers’ thoughts on how the process of death can vary through different circumstances. After that, he again embraces the benefits of choosing hospice care rather than going to hospital for intensive medical treatments.

Death is one of the most avoided topics because of the finality that comes with it and the fear of the unknown after death. However, there are quite a number of authors such as AtulGawande, Elisabeth Kubler-ross and Ira Byock who have attempted to go ahead and deal with death as a topic and other connected topics.Each of these authors have delved into one of the most revered topics that is death including related topics that come with it such as the dying process itself. Ira Byock’s Dying well: Peace and possibilities at the end of life is a book that looks at the moment prior to death when an individual is terminally sick and is at the point of death. A

Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End presses on an extremely difficult subject: death. Gawande talks about the need to confront death and not ignore it by taking steps in having a meaningful and satisfying end. Readers say that Gawande does demand a lot from people and the book is eye opening but it does not have a guide to having a better end in life. I agree that Gawande is demanding a lot but people still to listen to him but I think Gawande does give a guide to having a more satisfying end to life though not simply.

Part One: In the documentary "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande talks about the death of patients and how it 's a surprise to a large amount of the patients. He also explains the fear in the medical field, and as a doctor your suppose to help people and cure them, that you 're supposed to give them a better shot and if it later doesn 't go they way you expected,the doctors start to tell themselves what went wrong or what happen everything was going so well. Gawande talks about how he wants to learn more about how to communicate with patients and telling them that they have a certain weeks, days or months left. For example, He talks about one of his patients that he had, her name was Sarah and had stage 4 lung cancer was young and just had a

The Dying of the Light is an article by Dr. Craig Bowron that captures the controversy surrounding the role of medication in prolonging life. The author describes that many medical advancements have become a burden to particularly elderly patients who in most instances are ready to embrace the reality of death. Dr. Bowron believes that dying in these modern times has become a tiring and unnatural process. “Everyone wants to grow old and die in his or her sleep, but the truth is most of us will die in pieces,” Bowron notes (Bowron). The article does not advocate for euthanasia or the management of health care costs due to terminal or chronic illness. Bowron faults humanity for not embracing life and death with dignity as it was in the past.

As I searched for an editorial to write on, the Op-Ed, “What Our Cells Teach Us About a ‘Natural’ Death,” immediately caught my eye. It may have been due to recent events that left death on my mind, or the alien combination of ‘natural’ and ‘death’. Nonetheless, Warraich’s piece snagged my attention. His article provides an interesting interpretation of death and human relations towards the sore subject, and gives a sound argument to support it.

For many patients with incurable illnesses around the world, the time to stop particular treatments is an ongoing argument. Atul Gawande, a surgeon and staff writer for The New York Times, has been following this debate since his medical practice and strives to inform the public on how to handle mortality. In his article, The Best Possible Day, Gawande employs an anecdote, Ethos, and a eulogy to encourage the audience to consider adjusting a sick person’s care according to how they feel.

Furthermore, these presumptions were not entirely correct. Although, my patients were in their late 70s, with limited mobility, reduced cognizance, and from lower socioeconomical class backgrounds, I did not contemplate the actual humanistic qualities of my patients. I completely neglected to acknowledge the unique lives I was about to enter. Alternatively, looking back with some disappointment, I was not able to conduct a deep, meaningful conversation about the implications of death. I predicted I would discuss different views of death and dying, but this subject is much more personal than I imagined. In conjunction, I did not encounter a bitter attitude from my patients, as I predicted. However, both my patients’ conditions determined their willingness to engage upon each visit. Sometimes patients were too tired to hold a conversation, often overwhelmed by questions about their lives. During one visit I asked my patient about his hobbies when he was younger. He proceeded to discuss the wonderful recreational vehicle cross-country trips he and his wife would take. This led to sorrow about the loss of his wife, dog, and inability to conduct the trips in the future. Aside from the unpredictable interactions themselves, I did not forecast how my patient’s conditions would dictate our visits together.

Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a well-known writer in the New York Times, a public health innovator and most relevantly the author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Being Mortal has many messages being conveyed to the readers with the most important being our story to tell at the end of life. Everyone’s life will end, some will go too soon and some will live a long life. No matter how long a life lasts, we all want to be able to say we’ve done something with our lives, a meaningful story to tell. In this book, Gawande describes one of the most challenging parts of his career in medicine.

His voice suggests to readers that he knew that even as a doctor, they can make mistakes which lead to part two and into the plot of Gawande describing the errors other doctors have made. For example, He talked about a general surgeon and how he foolishly “left a large metal instrument in a patient’s abdomen, where it tore through the bowel and the wall of the bladder” (507). Another involved a cancer surgeon mistakenly biopsying a woman’s breast and one where a cardiac surgeon skipped “a small but key step during a heart-valve operation, thereby killing the patient” (507). The second part contained a number of incidents in which doctors and surgeons have conjured mistakes that either left patients in the hands of more exceptional doctors or

well. I used this article to help describe patient’s feelings towards discussing the end of their life. Since patients are likely to feel down after making decisions about their death, they should have a chance to feel uplifted by being introduced to religions and the afterlife.

Essay #2 draft #2 “The need for food has birthed cuisine. The need for shelter has given rise to architecture. The need for cover, fashion...since dying is a necessary part of life, what might we create with this fact?” Dr. Miller asked a solemn crowd. He had spent the last 15 minutes sharing the suffering he experienced and sees in his patients every day, and now he challenged them to redesign the way society approaches end of life care.

It has often been said that death is the only thing that truly unites the human race. While not a particularly pleasant thing to talk about, it is true. In 2016's Oscar Award nominated short Extremis, the issue of mortality is confronted head-on at an ICU as doctors, families, and patients make end-of-life decisions.

The intent of this paper is to write about a class experience of the shadow of death, and reflect upon the readings, discussions and personal stories that have emotionally impressed me. Terms such as euthanasia, suicide and death rituals were discussed during the lectures in class leaving me with a sense of loss. The many beliefs and world vies, that may differ from the American culture, were considered, which I found to be enlightening. The examination of various concepts such as practicality, wisdom and humor were presented and illustrated in “Understanding dying, death, & bereavement” written by Leming and Dickinson (2011).

Chuck Palahniuk known as the author of “fight club” writes a personal non-fiction essay called “Escort” to narrate his experience of working in a hospice. His narration inspire me to think about the life. Some people have healthy body, but they don’t realize that. Those people feel bored with their works, and they are lack of satisfaction with their lives. Negative emotions are filled in their heart and they don't recognize that having a healthy body would be the happiest thing in the world. On the other side, some people are facing death and have a very strong desire of live longer. They hope can stay in the world longer in order to enjoy more in the world. Only these people know how weak and valuable life is. In the essay “Escort,” Palahniuk