“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.” EndsCareNightBedFindingsShotsWake UpDollarsPatientCancerGenuineRecoveryCuresDeniedDevotedExhaustedFluMammogramsPrognosisPreventive Care Author:Jacob M. Appel
“This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.” EndsStoriesWhiteRoomsSilenceBedEmptyShockHospitalsChestsElectricCrashCartsCrispsSirensEmpty RoomsElectric Shock Book:Phoning Home: Essays Source: Phoning Home: Essays
