The Author Atul Gawande is a surgeon‚ staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End was an inspiring book that unwrap people’s mind for discussion and question our current practice of medicine and care. It is easy for audiences of all ages to relate to this book even if the young do not think about the process of death. It has a comprehensive coverage of medical sociology‚ where it deliberates on the evolution‚ controversial
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Case 1 A cafeteria at GDGWI has one special dish it serves like clockwork every Thursday at noon. This supposedly tasty dish is a casserole that contains sautéed onions‚ boiled sliced potatoes‚ green beans‚ and cream of mushroom soup. Unfortunately‚ students fail to see the special quality of this dish‚ and they loathingly refer to it as the Killer Casserole. The students reluctantly eat the casserole‚ however‚ because the cafeteria provides only a limited selection of dishes for Thursday’s lunch
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Together Specter and Gawande both touch upon science‚ journalism and public policies in their own style. Gawande writes about science that has already been proven to be beneficial but slow at implementation. Antisepsis‚ anesthesia‚ kangaroo care and oral rehydration were all researched‚ experimented and proven to be the best solution for each pressing problem. Although people doubted the actual use of each treatment‚ they could not argue with scientific facts of benefits. On the contrary‚ Specter
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Gawande uses examples from his own experiences to explain how medical professionals can be competent and more than competent. He describes that medical practitioners are competent when they are knowledgeable about diseases and when they can perform medical procedures. In the excerpt‚ Gawande demonstrated his competence by showing his ability to follow another internist’s instructions and by performing appropriate procedures for a “seventy-something-year-old Portuguese woman had been admitted because…she
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fascinated to find out all of the quirky superstitious thing that star athletes do before games. I was the perfect way to lead into the topic of superstition versus facts. In this chapter Gawande cover the two topics very well‚ and keeps his readers hooked one the topics the whole time. In this chapter Gawande begins by explaining how humans perceive and apply superstition into their live by using some great examples like “Michael Jordan‚ Jack Nicklaus and etc. He then continues and leads into the
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their patients they were practically meat on a cutting block. But as Dr. Marsh grew older and more experienced he realized the guilt associated with mistakes and the loss of patients; after the regulations‚ he hates were put in place he was able to better empathize with his patients. The guilt and empathy is most apparent when you look at the following passage from his book Do No Harm: Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery‚ where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness
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though we can have a long duration of steady pleasure‚ our remembering self will render the whole experience ruined if the ending is a bad one. Gawande understands that we see ourselves in our own stories‚ in that we strive for goals that are much larger than we are. That said‚ there are many ways that we can achieve such an ending. In the novel‚ Gawande talks about the introduction of animals in the hospital setting (dogs‚ cats‚ parakeets‚ etc.) and how they make the patients feel purposed. The
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DEPENDENCE 0N NEW MEDIA BY YOUTH SYNOPSIS Introduction New media is an on-demand access to content anytime‚ anywhere‚ on any digital device. Another aspect of new media is the real-time generation of new‚ unregulated content. The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over the world and the Internet. It has allowed people to express themselves through blogs‚ websites‚ pictures‚ and other user-generated media. New media "radically break the connection between physical
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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
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Atul Gwande’s article‚ Overkill‚ published by The New Yorker‚ discusses numerous situations of misdiagnosis and over medicalization of trivial health issues. Our society views pain‚ a natural phenomenon‚ as a medical issue that needs professional attention. By using advanced testing and scans‚ individuals are looking for a problem and treatment. In one day‚ Dr. Rwanda‚ a general surgeon‚ saw eight patients. Seven of those eight patients have received unnecessary and underwent high-cost test. This
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