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2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 616.029 G284b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The way modern medicine has changed the experience of dying, what the implications of this change are for each of us, and what we would need to do to change a system that knows a lot about prolonging life but little about tending to death. At the heart of this book is something larger and more lasting than even its agenda for how to effect change - it is a deeply humane portrayal of how our society copes with who we really are. We are mortal beings. And in that is every important thing to know about how we must live.
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2008., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Rob Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gilead Volume: 2
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2021., General, 126, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Our F Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole and their two young daughters, have their lives upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined.
![Our friend [DVD] (2021)](/Library/images/~imageCT101771.JPG "Our friend [DVD] (2021)")
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c2013., General, William Morrow Call No: Fic Sib Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After an accident leaves his wife Elle brain dead, Matt Beaulieu, resolving to take her off life support, changes his mind when the doctors discover that she is pregnant - a decision that results in a controversial legal battle with Elle's family."--Publisher.
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-- 10,000 crossroads2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 610.92 M928t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness. In this intimate and far-reaching memoir, Mount leads the reader through the formative moments and milestones of his personal and professional life as they intersected with the history of medical treatment over the last fifty years. Mount's lifelong pursuit of understanding the needs of dying patients began during his training as a surgical oncologist at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in the 1960s. He established the first comprehensive clinical program for end-of-life care in a teaching hospital in 1975 at McGill University's Royal Victoria Hospital, thus leading the charge for palliative medicine as a new specialty. His journey included collaboration with two storied healthcare innovators, British hospice pioneer Dame Cicely Saunders and American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, leading to a more fulsome understanding of the physical, psychosocial, and existential or spiritual needs of patients, their families, and their caregivers in the health care setting. This compelling narrative documents how the 'Royal Vic' team became internationally recognized as effective advocates of quality of life at the crossroad between life and death. From meetings with Viktor Frankl, the Dalai Lama and other teachers, to a memorable telephone chat with Mother Teresa, Mount recalls with appreciation, humour and humility, the places and people that helped to shed light on this universal human experience.
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c1986., Lester & Orpen Dennys Call No: 362.175 C163t Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
