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本文格式为Word版，下载可编辑 2022考研英语阅读书评临终关怀 Book Review;Terminal care 书评;临终关怀 Go gentle into that good night; 温柔地走入那个良夜; The Best Care Possible: A Physician s Quest toTransform Care Through the End of Life. By IraByock. 《可能是最好的医护手段：一位内科医生试图改革生命 终点的医护方法。》Ira Byoc 著作。 Asked where they would like to spend their last days, Americans almost always say at home,surrounded by people they love. In real life, though, only one in five achieves that. More than30% die in a nursing home, where almost no one wants to be, and over half end up in ahospital, often in an intensive-care unit, heavily sedated and attached to life-savingequipment until their doctors give up the battle. 对大多数美国人来说，如果最终的时间能在家中度过， 四周环围着挚爱亲朋，便是走也能走得称心了。然而，只有 五分之一的人能实现这个愿望。谁也不想去疗养院，可却有 超过三成的人死在那里;另外有超过半数的人死在医院的重 症监护室里，身上注射了大量镇静剂，连接在生命维持设备 1 / 6 本文格式为Word版，下载可编辑 上，直到医生宣布投降。 Death is a difficult subject for anyone, but Americans want to talk about it less than most.They have a cultural expectation that whatever may be wrong with them, it can be fixedwith the right treatment, and if the first doctor does not offer it they may seek a second, thirdor fourth opinion. Litigation is a constant threat, so even if a patient is very ill and likely todie, doctors and hospitals will still persist with aggressive treatment, paid for by the insureror, for the elderly, by Medicare. That is one reason why America spends 18% of its GDP onhealth care, the highest proportion in the world. 死亡对全部人来说都是个难题，相比之下美国人却很少 谈起死亡。在他们的文化里，大家都觉得不管生了什么病， 只要医治得当就能安稳无恙;假如一个医生不行，他们就会去 找其次个，第三个，第四个他们还时常威逼着要起诉医生， 所以就算有人病入膏肓，行将就木，医院和医生也会坚持实 施高强度治疗，反正年轻人有保险公司付账，老人也有医疗 保险撑腰。所以，美国的医疗支出 GDP 的 18%，高居全 球之首。 Th