Ep.15 小讀讀 Book Club: Being Mortal 凝視死亡 📖 ft. Suz
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Hi #BookClub episode 🛋🪴 今集我地會講吓 Being Mortal 呢本書,作者係美國著名外科醫生 Atul Gawande 🩺 藉住呢個機會討論關於 aging, mortality, end-of-life care 等議題,希望大家聽完會對本書或以上議題有多一分認識,多一分興趣 🌾
Timestamps 📍
(00:56 ) 呢集既 Flow | #Escapril prompts by Savannah Brown ✍🏻
#2 A Separation
(01:34 ) 重新起步 | A separation from podcasting 🎙
(02:30 ) 疫情下的距離 | A separation amid COVID-19
(04:16 ) 睇呢本書既過程 | Reading this book 🚶🏻♂️
#8 _____ as Medicine
(06:02 ) 呢本書啱邊個睇 | Who should read this book (you!)
(07:18 ) 其實本書講咩架 | Quick summary of the book
(10:52 ) 啱今日既香港嗎 | Context and applicability to 2022 Hong Kong
(12:58 ) 為護老院注入生命既小實驗 | Dr Bill Thomas and his 100 birds (1991)
(17:56 ) 點先係個「好醫生」 | What being a "good doctor" means
(22:14 ) 難以啟齒既壞消息 | Breaking bad news ⛰
(23:36 ) 醫生既角色 | The role of a doctor #morethanjustfixing 🩹
(25:52 ) 紓緩治療既討論 | End-of-life discussions: a list 💬
(28:10 ) 作者與父親既經歷 | Dr Gawande and his father's end-of-life care
(28:58 ) 自主與安全 | Autonomy v.s. Safety: The case of Harry Truman (1980)
(32:04 ) 現實與理想的距離 | Bridging the gap between theory and reality
(34:26 ) _____ as Medicine ✍🏻
#20 Trying To Be Good
(35:32 ) 不斷嘗試 不斷努力 | To try, always 🌾
(37:12 ) "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."
完 ~
Ideas from the Book 💡
• The experiment of Dr Bill Thomas (p.111)
• The Three Plagues of nursing home existence (p.116)
• "The Philosophy of Loyalty" by Josiah Royce, on seeking a cause beyond ourselves as an intrinsic human need (p.126)
• "Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship" by Ezekiel and Linda Emanuel, on the types of doctors (p.199)
• "Asylums" by Erving Goffman, on the likeness between prisons and nursing homes (p.73)
• The concept of "assisted living" (Ch.4)
Quotes from the Book 💬
• "(The role of a doctor) is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive." (p.259)
• "We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love." (p.106)
• "If to be human is to be limited, then the role of the caring professions and institutions — from surgeons to nursing homes — ought to be aiding people in their struggle with those limits." (p.260)