Avery Publishing GroupProduct DescriptionFor readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death?? an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school?? no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care?to become an ICU physician?and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But?then during?her first code?she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice.
Extreme Measures?charts?Zitter??s?journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another?a doctor who prioritizes the patient??s values and preferenc