“Being Mortal” produced by Thomas Jennings was originally aired on February 10, 2015. The 54:11 minute episode deals with the experience of a doctor and patient as a patient nears the end of their life. Many point of views helped to express the difficulty a doctor and patient has when the patient is dying.
All people are affected by dying in some way. This documentary deals with the process that doctors go through when they are dealing with patients who have less and less options for treatment as their lives come to a close. These doctors are motivated by their want and need to help people. It is a very complex process to tell someone that they are dying. It comes with acceptance on both the doctor and patient’s sides. The doctor must accept …show more content…
There is no set time as to when to tell a patient they have a certain amount of weeks, months, or years left; therefore, it is a constant struggle for doctors to admit that there is nothing left for them to do and that the patient is going to die. The research that Dr. Gawande conducts to become better at conveying the news of death to his patients can assist him and other doctors in their struggle. There is always a chance that a patient could be the one, the breakthrough. This makes it even more difficult to know when it is taking too much out of the patient to continue treatment because there is that …show more content…
Also, Jennings attempted to convey the difficulty of the situation from the point of view of a doctor. The producer conveyed the message very well. Personally, I felt the pain and struggle of these people, and I learned what it felt like to be the doctor in this situation. It is much more difficult than I had originally perceived because the timing and the treatment are extremely subjective in each
All people are affected by dying in some way. This documentary deals with the process that doctors go through when they are dealing with patients who have less and less options for treatment as their lives come to a close. These doctors are motivated by their want and need to help people. It is a very complex process to tell someone that they are dying. It comes with acceptance on both the doctor and patient’s sides. The doctor must accept …show more content…
There is no set time as to when to tell a patient they have a certain amount of weeks, months, or years left; therefore, it is a constant struggle for doctors to admit that there is nothing left for them to do and that the patient is going to die. The research that Dr. Gawande conducts to become better at conveying the news of death to his patients can assist him and other doctors in their struggle. There is always a chance that a patient could be the one, the breakthrough. This makes it even more difficult to know when it is taking too much out of the patient to continue treatment because there is that …show more content…
Also, Jennings attempted to convey the difficulty of the situation from the point of view of a doctor. The producer conveyed the message very well. Personally, I felt the pain and struggle of these people, and I learned what it felt like to be the doctor in this situation. It is much more difficult than I had originally perceived because the timing and the treatment are extremely subjective in each