Dying In America Analysis

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At what level are we considered dead? Death is a very depressing topic to talk about because as humans, we want to engage in lessons that stimulates positive and negative energy to keep us moving forward through life not an ending to our book of life. Can we agree? Although when life challenges us, and we question our existence, I can guarantee when our life is actually threatened we ask ourselves “is this my last day on Earth?” To answer that question, let me introduce what is our modern health care that is called life support. Our modern health care can possibly increase the survival rate with time by temporarily saving an individual in any life-threatening event. But how do we determine someone’s last day on Earth? The job for a doctor …show more content…

This is a part of the stage where finding recovery and answers challenge doctors and the loved ones that are suffering. In the Institute of Medicine’s critical report Dying in America, there is an idea that emphasizes the importance of making a decision for the patient that is on the stage of death. JoAnn Grif, writer of Dying in America, identifies that decisions for a patient should be made before as a living will from the patient’s own preference and decision. Letting the doctor know so it can improve communication and awareness for the individual that is on treatment, and this consent should ahead of time and planned out. Although, how soon should patients reveal a will to their doctor, some will ask. It is advised to communicate with the doctor so it can decrease the possibility that the health care decisions are not fully relied on the physician’s judgment call. There has been statistical evidence from surveys and numerous cases reported that physicians were falsely accused of showing acts of murder in the EOL care, which is another term for life support. Although that is not the case because JoAnn reports that “improving the quality of EOL care are failure to prepare an advance directive and disregard of an existing advance directive.” Overall, both the doctor and patient must make a reliability form before so the patient, at the moment who cannot make the decision, since they are unable because of their unresponsive condition. The will should describe how the patient wants to be treated but it has to be updated to specify the type of treatments that is