Skip to main content

Search

EiJ Hazards

eij_signage-_hazards.png

Digital collection focused on environmental injustice hazards. 

pece_annotation_1478901984

joerene.aviles

The stakeholders are Dr. Atul Gawande, other healthcare professionals, and the patients with terminal illnesses. They have to decide what the patient's priorities are, treatment options, and basically how much time and quality of life patients are willing to trade for extended years to live. Is the treatment making the patient worse or better? Doctors have to put themselves in a position of vulnerability by personally getting to know their patients, and deal with the guilt and blame if their treatments aren't successful or what they had said to the patient's family.