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Extreme Measures by MD Jessica Nutik Zitter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Extreme Measures about?
An ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter's journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another—a doctor who prioritizes the patient's values and preferences in an environment where the default choice is the extreme use of technology. In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what sheterms the End-of-Life Conveyor belt....
Who reads Extreme Measures?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- MD Jessica Nutik Zitter
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.47 / 5 (90 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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