Wishes To Die For
A Caregiver’s Guide to Advance Care Directives
by Kevin J. Haselhorst, MD
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Pub Date Mar 01 2016 | Archive Date Nov 25 2016
Tranquility Publications | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Description
"What are your wishes?" Dr. Kevin Haselhorst has posed this question to his patients for years while practicing emergency medicine. Patients inevitably say, "You tell me. You're the doctor.” Dr. H. has taken this task to heart while writing Wishes to Die For. Empathy, being an inside journey, is the art of medicine that builds mutual respect between physicians, patients and family members.
While Advance Care Directives are the voice for those who can no longer speak, Dr. H offers impassioned words about the value of ACDs as a spiritual undertaking and declaration. Advance care planning as preventative medicine emboldens readers to eventually graduate from Alpha care to Omega care through traditional guidelines for higher education.
Wishes To Die For enables patients and caregivers a better understanding of how to:
• Establish an individual and identifiable meaning and goal for dignity.
• Preregister by completing an ACD during the prime of life.
• Visualize priorities and values being balanced with work and rest.
• Experience life's trials and tribulations as the evolution of virtue.
• Create a definitive finish line and realize lifetime achievement.
While Advance Care Directives are the voice for those who can no longer speak, Dr. H offers impassioned words about the value of ACDs as a spiritual undertaking and declaration. Advance care planning as preventative medicine emboldens readers to eventually graduate from Alpha care to Omega care through traditional guidelines for higher education.
Wishes To Die For enables patients and caregivers a better understanding of how to:
• Establish an individual and identifiable meaning and goal for dignity.
• Preregister by completing an ACD during the prime of life.
• Visualize priorities and values being balanced with work and rest.
• Experience life's trials and tribulations as the evolution of virtue.
• Create a definitive finish line and realize lifetime achievement.
Advance Praise
Advance praise
“This book can help readers sort out their personal values on this intimate and inevitable subject. The first-person writing is unsparing in its argument that lack of directives, and poor ones, only lead to more confusion over the health system’s rules and regulations and more suffering of patients.” - “Anonymous Judge, 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.”
“Drawing from his experiences as an emergency room physician, Dr. Kevin Haselhorst has crafted his book Wishes To Die For as a heartfelt and enlightened appeal that ‘patients be allowed to die the way their doctors do.’ — Karen Wyatt, MD, hospice physician and author of What Really Matters
“In Wishes To Die For, Dr. Kevin Haselhorst brings his deep experience as an ER physician to the task of helping us, and those we love, die with forethought, dignity, and peacefulness.” — Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
“It’s well worth taking this journey with the author to help us clarify our own beliefs.” Excerpt from the Foreword — Carol Bradley Bursack, columnist and author of Minding Our Elders
“This book can help readers sort out their personal values on this intimate and inevitable subject. The first-person writing is unsparing in its argument that lack of directives, and poor ones, only lead to more confusion over the health system’s rules and regulations and more suffering of patients.” - “Anonymous Judge, 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.”
“Drawing from his experiences as an emergency room physician, Dr. Kevin Haselhorst has crafted his book Wishes To Die For as a heartfelt and enlightened appeal that ‘patients be allowed to die the way their doctors do.’ — Karen Wyatt, MD, hospice physician and author of What Really Matters
“In Wishes To Die For, Dr. Kevin Haselhorst brings his deep experience as an ER physician to the task of helping us, and those we love, die with forethought, dignity, and peacefulness.” — Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
“It’s well worth taking this journey with the author to help us clarify our own beliefs.” Excerpt from the Foreword — Carol Bradley Bursack, columnist and author of Minding Our Elders
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