pickIt‘s hard to explain my feelings about this book in a short review. The author is a geriatric physician, and knows EXACTLY how badly the U.S. medical system treats youngold, oldold, and reallyreallyold people. This is more than just that, but it wanders and rambles. Sometimes that‘s valuable, and sometimes not. Great for caregivers and people getting older.
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“It was then that I saw what had been right in front of me my entire career: that the experiences of older people in our health care system are indicative of how current medical care is broken for all of us.”
⬆️ Why this book applies to everyone, not just the elderly and their caregivers.
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The author works within the medical system, sees its failures, tries to help create success—based on what‘s appropriate for her elderly patients. She also gets deeply burned out, and is honest (if not fully transparent) about how that felt and how she recovered.
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That last sentence goes like this, “It prioritizes treatment over prevention, parts over wholes, fixing over caring, averages over individuals, and the new over the proven.”
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This book is very quotable, covering a wide variety of topics about the U.S. medical system and how it impacts people from about age 50 on. I read the ARC, so technically can‘t post as many quotes as I‘d like. But I‘ll throw a few out there from the ebook sample.
Review coming in a few hours!
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This is a geriatrician‘s perspective on aging—how we treat it as individuals and a society. As always, I wish for more patient stories as less historical, philosophical information. #arc #netgalley #elderhood #aging #dignityandrespect
