What Is The Moral Of Atul Gawande's Last Duty

Health professionals treat older adults equally while providing quality care. It is not acceptable to receive scarce resources according to characteristics such as gender or race. Also, it is ethically acceptable and even mandatory to alleviate the patient's pain, even when it may shorten life. It is important to recognize that some older adults may choose to accept some level of pain to avoid sedation.
One case study from Dr. Atul Gawande’s book is his father, Atmaram Gawande. Atmaran Gawande came to the United States in his youth for better opportunities. Coming from India he felt it was the family’s responsibility to take the aged in, give them company, and look after them. As he became successful, he sent home larger amounts of money, but there was no denying that he had left, and he was not going back. His father embraced every aspect of American culture. He gave up vegetarianism and discovered dating, instead of letting his father (Atul’s grandfather) arrange his marriage. In Atmaran’s last days of life, he rather chose to die instead of becoming a quadriplegic. He also decided to be taken care at hospice home care. This type of hospice if about palliative care, giving the care to help manage those kinds of difficulties. The suffering Atul Gawande’s father experienced in his final days was not
Jewel Douglass wanted to find the longevity to her illness. Her biggest fear was that she would not be able to live life again and enjoy it, that she would not be able to return home and be with the people she loved. As her cancer progresses, she did not want to take risky chances, things only got worse at home and she did not know if she was willing to face the suffering that surgery might inflict on her and feared being left worse off. Three days after surgery, she went home with hospice to look after her, and she dies peacefully in her room in the company of her husband next to