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The way Dr. Dan Morhaim describes it, the hardware of prolonging lives is far more advanced than the software.
Ventilators, chemotherapy, pills, transfusions, grafts and transplants help keep people going for years beyond what their great-grandparents could expect. But the philosophy of end-of-life care, the hard job of looking death in the eye, seems stuck in the pre-penicillin age...
THE BALTIMORE SUN
NEWSPAPER
Dan Morhaim is a legislator, a doctor and an author. In his book The Better End: Surviving and Dying on Your Own Terms in Today’s Modern Medical World, he discusses end of life care and the importance of having an advanced directive to make your wishes known about how you would like to be cared for while dying.
We talk with Dr. Morhaim about his book and advanced directives.
MARYLAND MORNING : Interview with Sheilah Kast
As a practicing physician, Morhaim (health medicine & policy, Johns Hopkins Univ.; delegate, Maryland General Assembly) has watched the detrimental effects that end-of-life procedures have on dying patients, their families, and the medical personnel who care for them. He has made it his personal mission to urge patients to prepare advance directives - legal documents that convey decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time - to improve the comfort and quality of a dying patient’s care. Morhaim's book should take the mystery out of the critical care and end-of-life process. This book will prepare readers to discuss this very important topic...
LIBRARY JOURNAL
Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib.
Dr. Dan appears on Maryland Public Television's Direct Connection discussing "The Better End."
Watch Monday, Jan. 09, 2012 on PBS. See more from Direct Connection.
MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION
Most of us can imagine the details of an unplanned and unpleasant death: Car accidents, sudden stroke-heart attack. But how much thought have you given to the death that can be planned? An illness that you won't recover from? An injury that may ultimately claim your life?
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO
The closest I have ever come to making an advance directive was when I watched the Seinfeld episode, "The Comeback," back in the 90s. You know the one: Kramer rents a movie about a woman in a coma called, "The Other Side of Darkness," and is inspired to write a living will in case a similar fate befalls him.
Seinfeld, otherside of darknessThere's a tepid punchline to Cosmo's sudden interest in planning for end-of-life care. He hurries to amend his living will ("don't pull the plug!") after watching the end of the movie when the fictitious protagonist emerges from her coma. At death's door, one's fate can go either way....
OBIT-MAG.COM
By Krishna Andavolu, Managing Editor
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