Ira Byock
Teoksen Dying Well tekijä
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Ira Byock, MD, is Director of Palliative Medicine at Dart-mouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Byock has been a consistent advocate for the voice and rights of seriously ill patients and their families. The näytä lisää author of Dying Well, Byock has been featured prominently in a Peabody Award-winning 60 Minutes story titled "The Cost of Dying" and profiled in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, and Prevention. He lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire. näytä vähemmän
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Associated Works
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death (1997) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 217 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1951-02-13
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Ammatit
- Physician
- Organisaatiot
- Providence St. Joseph Health Institute for Human Caring (founder)
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Important reading. A detailed and rational look at the end of life care. Very interesting and much food for thought. A very good read.
This book covers the healing power of words, emotional forgiveness, pain and anger. A spiritual way of saying goodbye and stories showing how to nurture or heal relationships.
Stories of love, reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain and conflict based on the wide experience of a director of a hospice.
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The author is a pioneer in the field of community-wide hospice. The cases he inscribes here, where he assisted, or was a consultant, had meaningful death.
Here in our society, especially if you are poor, or of color, have mental illness, you are at-risk. "You need to just die and make way for younger people who can contribute to society." That is pretty much what our country's attitude to you will be when your time comes.… (lisätietoja)