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description: NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Death Interrupted  ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era.Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive almost indefinitely. But this unprecedented shift in intensive care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death doctors fight with doctors families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile intensive care patients are caught in purgatory attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves.Through conversations with critical care and end-of-life professionalsincluding ethicists social workers nurses and doctorsand observations from his own time working in ambulances emergency rooms and the icu Dr. Blair Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying by addressing the tough questions facing us all.
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title: Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die
publisher: The Walrus