This Doctor Wants to Humanize Death Op-Docs
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Date: 2020-09-11
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Isabella
I'm an emergency physician who has to deal with death almost every day, and I really admire what a palliative care physicians do. Sadly, in my country, it is not an established field yet. I try to do my own counseling for the dying patients' families from time to time in the ED, but we're often undermanned and I just don't have the time to spare. From what I witness personally, critical patients whose families already accepted the fact that they're going to die usually just go peacefully, and the family is at peace too. It is always a heartwarming scene, that sadly I don't get to witness often.
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I'm an emergency physician who has to deal with death almost every day, and I really admire what a palliative care physicians do. Sadly, in my country, it is not an established field yet. I try to do my own counseling for the dying patients' families from time to time in the ED, but we're often undermanned and I just don't have the time to spare. From what I witness personally, critical patients whose families already accepted the fact that they're going to die usually just go peacefully, and the family is at peace too. It is always a heartwarming scene, that sadly I don't get to witness often.
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Kevin
I mean I don t want to make it political or about race, but it s horrible though not surprising most of the patients and families interviewed were African American. The lowest income communities in the US really do experience 3rd World quality healthcare (on average, African Americans make less money than Caucasian Americans. That s not to say this physician or that hospital specifically are bad, but as a law of averages, it s true. We must strive to ensure everyone has equal access to healthcare and ample access to prenatal care.
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I mean I don t want to make it political or about race, but it s horrible though not surprising most of the patients and families interviewed were African American. The lowest income communities in the US really do experience 3rd World quality healthcare (on average, African Americans make less money than Caucasian Americans. That s not to say this physician or that hospital specifically are bad, but as a law of averages, it s true. We must strive to ensure everyone has equal access to healthcare and ample access to prenatal care.
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Kim
I recently lost my grandmother after years of battling kidneys disease. It wasn t until the palliative care specialists reached out to me that our family had the courage to start planning for her last months on earth. She got to spend the last months in her homeland and her quality of life significantly improved. The palliative specialist gave our family that permission structure to start planning. Up until then, I think the doctors would have just kept sending my grandmother to the emergency room every week.
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I recently lost my grandmother after years of battling kidneys disease. It wasn t until the palliative care specialists reached out to me that our family had the courage to start planning for her last months on earth. She got to spend the last months in her homeland and her quality of life significantly improved. The palliative specialist gave our family that permission structure to start planning. Up until then, I think the doctors would have just kept sending my grandmother to the emergency room every week.
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cj22cj
What an amazing doctor and all-around human being! It's people like Dr. Tremonti that truly make this world a better place. Thank you to the New York Times for continuing to take the journalistic high road with quality reporting such as this. Your commitment to integrity, decency and diversity is much appreciated. and much needed!
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What an amazing doctor and all-around human being! It's people like Dr. Tremonti that truly make this world a better place. Thank you to the New York Times for continuing to take the journalistic high road with quality reporting such as this. Your commitment to integrity, decency and diversity is much appreciated. and much needed!
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Dokterpedia. net
I don t want to say this, but so many women today go into a pregnancy totally unprepared, with uncontrolled Diabetes, high blood pressure, no Pap smears, untreated STDs, don t see regular doctor, and expect an uncomplicated pregnancy. Please see a doctor regularly and prevent problems from happening in the first place.
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I don t want to say this, but so many women today go into a pregnancy totally unprepared, with uncontrolled Diabetes, high blood pressure, no Pap smears, untreated STDs, don t see regular doctor, and expect an uncomplicated pregnancy. Please see a doctor regularly and prevent problems from happening in the first place.
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MrSuperhenry101
I don t want to say this, but so many women today go into a pregnancy totally unprepared, with uncontrolled Diabetes, high blood pressure, no Pap smears, untreated STDs, don t see regular doctor, and expect an uncomplicated pregnancy. Please see a doctor regularly and prevent problems from happening in the first place.
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I don t want to say this, but so many women today go into a pregnancy totally unprepared, with uncontrolled Diabetes, high blood pressure, no Pap smears, untreated STDs, don t see regular doctor, and expect an uncomplicated pregnancy. Please see a doctor regularly and prevent problems from happening in the first place.
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blogs
USA should legalize assisted euthanasia for people who wish to end their life
Several Eur0pean countries such as Switzerland and Belgium have legalized doctor assisted euthanasia for the elderly, disabled, terminally ill, and in some cases, even just severely depressed people.
That is my retirement plan.
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USA should legalize assisted euthanasia for people who wish to end their life
Several Eur0pean countries such as Switzerland and Belgium have legalized doctor assisted euthanasia for the elderly, disabled, terminally ill, and in some cases, even just severely depressed people.
That is my retirement plan.
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Judo
These people cannot ever understand what a mother feels when her baby is dying, regardless of how experienced they are. Did they ever lose a child? Turn the tables around, they will never be so willing to say yes to the death of their own child. You always hold for a miracle it s only natural when it is your own child.
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These people cannot ever understand what a mother feels when her baby is dying, regardless of how experienced they are. Did they ever lose a child? Turn the tables around, they will never be so willing to say yes to the death of their own child. You always hold for a miracle it s only natural when it is your own child.
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Lisa
I'm a pediatric nurse. I'd get off shift, walk out of the hospital & think how those on the outside have no idea what's really going on in peds hospitals all over. Sometimes, in the end, parents just can't visit anymore. But we're there & palliative care is there. There are worse things than death.
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I'm a pediatric nurse. I'd get off shift, walk out of the hospital & think how those on the outside have no idea what's really going on in peds hospitals all over. Sometimes, in the end, parents just can't visit anymore. But we're there & palliative care is there. There are worse things than death.
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Hope
This was so sad. So heartbreaking.
However, I do understand that this conversation needs to be had more and that death should not be so stigmatized in our society, to the point that we are so scared to even think or talk about it.
But it is hard. And it is so so sad: (
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This was so sad. So heartbreaking.
However, I do understand that this conversation needs to be had more and that death should not be so stigmatized in our society, to the point that we are so scared to even think or talk about it.
But it is hard. And it is so so sad: (
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