The Caregiver's Bookshelf: Dying by Degrees - NYTimes.com
The Caregiver’s Bookshelf: Dying by Degrees
By PAULA SPAN
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Byock has been writing books about the way Americans die since 1998,
when he published “Dying Well.” For most of that time, he has been
appalled.
He still is. Dr. Byock, director of palliative medicine at the
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., pulls no punches in
his new book, “The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform
Care Through the End of Life.” The American way of dying, he points
out, involves too much suffering for both patients and families, and
routinized medical response with not enough individualized care. It
means not enough listening, not enough support for families, way too
much expense. “A national disgrace,” the author calls it in his
introduction..........
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