They Call Me Doctor Death

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Too often we view death as an enemy to be denied fought and defeated rather than as an inevitable and natural part of life. The medical establishment routinely buys into this view promoting aggressive treatments by overselling technology and hope which only prolong needless suffering for terminal patients and their families. But as this candid book shows we don't have to go down that path.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As a long-time palliative and hospice care physician Dr. Ken Pettit talks openly about a subject few of us want to discuss. His focus is not on prolonging life but on helping terminal patients die a good death with the best possible quality of life up to the end.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Based on his work with hundreds of patients and families as well as the life-altering experience of watching family and friends face death Dr. Pettit illuminates in the vivid detail that only an insider can provide the failings of our medical establishment. He empowers us to ask questions challenge assumptions and prepare with pro-active clarity for our final days. This book will help all of us-patients families and medical professionals-break our collective silence about death so we can develop better ways of discussing treating and encountering what we will all someday face.</span></p>