Dr. Haider Warraich Discusses His Recent Work, "Modern Death" (September 27th)
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Listen Now Earlier this year St. Martin's Press published Dr. Haider Warraich's Modern Death, How Medicine Changed the End of Life. As the dust jacket notes, "the mechanics and understanding" of dying, "the whys, wheres, whens and hows are almost nothing like what they were mere decades ago." Today, eight in ten Americans die at an advanced age, or under Medicare, die in a medical setting after suffering for some while from a chronic, eventually fatal disease or diseases. If lucky, how Americans die will have been determined, or at least informed, by an advanced directive or like document.
Dr. Haider Warraich Discusses His Recent Work, "Modern Death" (September 27th)
Dr. Haider Warraich Discusses His Recent…
Dr. Haider Warraich Discusses His Recent Work, "Modern Death" (September 27th)
Listen Now Earlier this year St. Martin's Press published Dr. Haider Warraich's Modern Death, How Medicine Changed the End of Life. As the dust jacket notes, "the mechanics and understanding" of dying, "the whys, wheres, whens and hows are almost nothing like what they were mere decades ago." Today, eight in ten Americans die at an advanced age, or under Medicare, die in a medical setting after suffering for some while from a chronic, eventually fatal disease or diseases. If lucky, how Americans die will have been determined, or at least informed, by an advanced directive or like document.