{"id":5832,"date":"2016-05-27T19:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2016-05-23T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:06:22","slug":"linked-how-doctors-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/linked-how-doctors-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;How Doctors Die&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zocalopublicsquare.org\/2011\/11\/30\/how-doctors-die\/ideas\/nexus\/\">via Zocalo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call \u201cfutile care\u201d being performed on people. That\u2019s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, \u201cPromise me if you find me like this that you\u2019ll kill me.\u201d They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped \u201cNO CODE\u201d to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may not be for everyone but I completely agree with the direction doctors go toward this. Maybe my family will find this post and see in writing that I don\u2019t want to be on life-support, I don\u2019t want to be kept alive. If I die, let me go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Zocalo: Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call \u201cfutile care\u201d being performed on people. 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