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What should medicine do when it can?t save your life?

By Alliance Alert

Atul Gawande writing in The New Yorker: "In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die . . . The trouble is that we've built our medical system and culture around the long tail. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets?and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near-certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).