The Final Conversation
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The Conversation
Author: Angelo E. Volandes
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2015-01-13
In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool. There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. Dr. Angelo E. Volandes believes that a life well lived deserves a good ending. Through the stories of seven patients and seven very different end-of-life experiences, he demonstrates that what people with a serious illness, who are approaching the end of their lives, need most is not new technologies but one simple thing: The Conversation. He argues for a radical re-envisioning of the patient-doctor relationship and offers ways for patients and their families to talk about this difficult issue to ensure that patients will be at the center and in charge of their medical care. It might be the most important conversation you ever have.
Start the Conversation
There is one conversation most Americans would do anything to avoid: the one about our own death or the death of someone we love. In this book, Stone offers comfort for us all and first aid for anyone in a death-related crisis. Step-by-step, you will build your own conviction that there is no death. Once you know that, you won't be frightened of death anymore. She offers stories from her own effective work with the terminally ill, and an unsentimental analysis of the significance of the near-death experience. Pointing to the many recent advances in the science of pain control, Ganga stands up for the right of every dying person to a pain-free death. Finally, she urges that we rethink the whole idea of grief, compassionately explaining why grief is not necessary.
Conversations on Love
“This book might just change your life” ―Sunday Times 'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place” ―Stylist After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? In Conversations on Love she began to find the answers: Dolly Alderton on vulnerability Stephen Grosz on accepting change Candice Carty-Williams on friendship Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss Diana Evans on parenthood Emily Nagoski on the science of sex Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations Roxane Gay on redefining romance and many more...