How Doctors Die

Michael F. McElroy for The New York Times

Dr. Elizabeth McKinley, right, at her home in suburban Cleveland, where she was receiving hospice care. With her was her sister Brent McKinley.

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By DAN GORENSTEIN

Published: November 19, 2013 1 Comment

這標題吸引我注意，醫師如何走完人生最後一段路？這是一位53歲的內科醫師，breast cancer metastasis。

What Dr. McKinley wanted was time with her husband, a radiologist, and their two college-age children, and another summer to soak her feet in the Atlantic Ocean. But most of all, she wanted “a little more time being me and not being somebody else.” So, she turned down more treatment and began hospice care, the point at which the medical fight to extend life gives way to creating the best quality of life for the time that is left.

Dan Gorenstein is the senior health care reporter for the public radio program “Marketplace.”

人生到頭來，還是和家人相處最親，在最後一段日子裡，她想的是多想家人相處，想把腳泡在大西洋溫暖的海水中，和做她自己。因為她非常了解醫學的極限，以及她能獲得多大的幫助，所以她把時間留給她自己和家人。

在醫生專屬的論壇，醫聲論壇•  https://forum.doctorvoice.org/index.php‎，論壇中有一頁是專門登錄先走的醫師前輩們，偶而看一下，都覺得健康、安全最重要。