How to Talk End-of-Life Care with a Dying Patient - Atul Gawande

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Practicing surgeon Atul Gawande discusses the four important parts of talking with terminally ill patients about their end-of-life care. Rather than pressing patients to make hard decisions, Gawande emphasizes the importance of asking questions about their hopes and fears.

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This excerpt was taken from a program titled "How to Live When You Have to Die," featuring Atul Gawande. It was recorded in collaboration with the New Yorker Festival, on October 2, 2010.

Atul Gawande is a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Previously, he served as a senior health-policy adviser in the Clinton Administration. He is the author of "Complications," "Better," and "The Checklist Manifesto." This year, he won a National Magazine Award for his New Yorker piece "The Cost Conundrum."

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[joebobfrank666]

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[evilelton]

I feel like this should be common sense for doctors. If this gentleman is talking about it, then it should be obvious that some doctors don't know the difference between treating a dying patient as a human being, and treating the patient as an assignment

[Primalxbeast]

There was a preacher in ICU when I came close to dieing once, but luckily he saw me laughing and having fun with my friends and left me alone.

[Primalxbeast]

@FLIPWORLDUPSIDEDOWN3

After spending my whole life having people trying to cram their religious bullshit down my throat, if somebody started that crap on my deathbed, I'd castrate the bastard. If somebody religious is dieing, and their little fairytales make it easier to face death, let them have their delusion if it makes them feel better, but I wouldn't want to hear that crap, and don't even start on the burning in hell crap.

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[Sinnessa]

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@FLIPWORLDUPSIDEDOWN3

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[mrx0066600]

very interesting.