阿圖•葛文德
白宮最年輕的健康政策顧問,影響奧巴馬醫改政策的關鍵人物,受到金融大鰐查理•芒格大力褒奬的醫學工作者,《時代周刊》2010年全球“100位最具影響力人物”榜單中唯一的醫生。
哈佛公共健康學院教授,哈佛醫學院教授,世界衛生組織全球病患安全挑戰項目負責人,《紐約客》等雜誌的醫學專欄作傢。
美國麥剋阿瑟天纔奬獲得者,2003年美國最佳短篇奬得主,2002及2009年美國最佳科學短篇奬得主,2009年榮獲哈斯丁斯中心大奬,2004年被《新聞周刊》評為“20位最具影響力的南亞人物”之一。
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. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
發表於2025-02-24
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文/逸之 《最好的告彆》相較與它的英文名字Being Mortal顯的含情脈脈。 這是一本關於死亡的書,主題也無疑是死亡。它沒有解決辦法,而是提齣觀點,持續發問。它帶給讀者的思考超越它本身,這也是本書的最大價值。 在腦海中構建瞭死亡的場景,不斷落幕,正如生命末期研究者Jo...
評分 評分作為一名醫生,我曾在ICU工作過。ICU的中文名稱是加強治療病房,專門收治醫院裏最危重的患者,大多經曆著生死的考驗。在ICU工作的半年裏,我經曆過許多次搶救的大場麵,目睹瞭許多病人生命的終結。每經曆一次,都感覺生命之不易,甚至有瞭“人生苦短,及時行樂”的念頭。 在醫...
評分雖然標題很老土,但是這本書給我的感覺的確如此。社交網絡上經常流傳各種書單,什麼人生必看50本之類,每每看到我都嗤之以鼻。我以前並不覺得有什麼書是必須每個人都讀的,不覺得有什麼書是人生必讀的。但是,這本《最好的告彆》是我目前二十六歲人生裏遇到的書裏麵,我覺得的...
圖書標籤: 死亡 醫學 人生 英文原版 生命 社會學 心理學 美國
What's the goal? What are the trade-offs you're willing to make? Essential questions for every terminally ill person. Respect and a hard conversation can spare one and the ones around a lot of suffering. This could be a policy-changing book.
評分2016.3.22-5.12 實際內容和看之前以為的差得蠻多的,主要還是圍繞著aging和hospice care在講,其實還是大道理都懂,但是麵對起來並沒有那麼容易;第二三章真的看得有點緻鬱,斷斷續續看瞭好久。“old age is not a battle, old age is a massacre ”
評分Death is not terrified but lonely is. And stay with goal in your life and knowing what you really want.
評分深受震撼,希望推薦給每個人的一本書。當生命所剩無幾,你是選擇活到死,還是等到死?A Better Life是全書最光明的一個章節,讀到Thomas把各種動物帶到nursing home裏,他說那些老人laughed their butts off,我在公車上哭著笑瞭。後50%關注絕癥病患,如果說前文的關懷體製在中國很難實現,這一部分講述的一些臨終關懷更有現實意義(在最後究竟什麼對你來說纔是最重要的?)。讀到一半時某次迴傢,奶奶說起隔壁傢老人去瞭颱灣遊玩的趣事。我問她想去嗎,她說可是我去不瞭啊。我說,你好好的,健健康康的多活幾年,我帶你去。我愛我的奶奶,對於一個功利社會來說,她老瞭沒有價值瞭,但我希望她是生活在一個人文社會,即使老瞭,沒有辦法再付齣瞭,還能有尊嚴,用自己覺得舒適的方式走嚮終點。
評分近年來讀過最好的一本書
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