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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Atul Gawande, 2014, Picador<\/p>\n
What a depressing subject!\u00c2\u00a0 And yet, this is a book I found I couldn’t put down.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a book that everybody should read because, for many of us, our\u00c2\u00a0death or the deaths of our family members will not come quickly but will be a prolonged process.\u00c2\u00a0 This book provides\u00c2\u00a0a great deal of guidance and thought as to how to prepare and handle those situations.<\/p>\n
The insight the author provides is\u00c2\u00a0extremely valuable\u00c2\u00a0 as he seems to have garnered it from a long career\u00c2\u00a0that involved a great deal of contact with persons suffering\u00c2\u00a0from debilitating and painful disease at the end of their lives.\u00c2\u00a0 The wisdom he passes along\u00c2\u00a0through\u00c2\u00a0his book is truly priceless.\u00c2\u00a0 What I really appreciated was that he does not talk down to the reader.\u00c2\u00a0 He basically says that he, as a physician, didn’t have a clue about any of this stuff either, but gradually came to his conclusions through a great deal of experience that he is eager to share.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the book is extremely well written and structured.\u00c2\u00a0 That prose of this high quality could be written by a physician is a bit beyond belief, so I will surmise that he had an outstanding editor.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many authors out there whose primary livelihood is writing who don’t come even close to writing the way this book\u00c2\u00a0is written.<\/p>\n
In reading the book one naturally refers to the deaths of close family members.\u00c2\u00a0 In my case, I constantly thought of my father who died of prostate cancer after dealing with the disease for many years.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought of all the decisions we made for him and the decisions we left for him and I found myself asking what we did right and what we could have done better.\u00c2\u00a0 I was pleased that the book reinforced some of the actions we took but it also gave me a lot of insight as to what my perceptions would have been had I been in the same situation.<\/p>\n
I have found that, after reading this book, I am constantly recommending it to many of my friends and family members.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, for my family, I am going to suggest that it be required reading for the guidance it might provide them as to how I would like to be treated if and when I am in that same situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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