Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality

The end of life discussions can often be difficult for a multitude of reasons. Our culture is pervasive with ideas of mortality, and that medicine can avert this human constant. Medicine, as a field, must embrace our limitations so that we can engage in honest discussions with the families and the p...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Macmillan, Patrick, Geraci, Stephen A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492358
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1969
_version_ 1783301297694310400
author Macmillan, Patrick
Geraci, Stephen A
author_facet Macmillan, Patrick
Geraci, Stephen A
author_sort Macmillan, Patrick
collection PubMed
description The end of life discussions can often be difficult for a multitude of reasons. Our culture is pervasive with ideas of mortality, and that medicine can avert this human constant. Medicine, as a field, must embrace our limitations so that we can engage in honest discussions with the families and the patients regarding the end of life care.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-5820007
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2017
publisher Cureus
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-58200072018-02-28 Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality Macmillan, Patrick Geraci, Stephen A Cureus Internal Medicine The end of life discussions can often be difficult for a multitude of reasons. Our culture is pervasive with ideas of mortality, and that medicine can avert this human constant. Medicine, as a field, must embrace our limitations so that we can engage in honest discussions with the families and the patients regarding the end of life care. Cureus 2017-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5820007/ /pubmed/29492358 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1969 Text en Copyright © 2017, Macmillan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Macmillan, Patrick
Geraci, Stephen A
Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality
title Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality
title_full Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality
title_fullStr Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality
title_full_unstemmed Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality
title_short Culture Shift: Building an Awareness of Our Mortality
title_sort culture shift: building an awareness of our mortality
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492358
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1969
work_keys_str_mv AT macmillanpatrick cultureshiftbuildinganawarenessofourmortality
AT geracistephena cultureshiftbuildinganawarenessofourmortality

Ejemplares similares