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Death Interrupted

How Modern Medicine is Complicating the Way We Die

by Dr Blair Bigham

Narrator Robert Lee

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Length 7 hours 6 minutes

Language English

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Summary
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Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis.

In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves.

In Death Interrupted, Dr Blair Bigham seeks to help listeners understand the options facing them at the end of their lives. Through conversations with end-of-life professionals and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms and the ICU, Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying and answers the tough questions facing us all. Because now, for the first time in human history, we may be able to choose how our own story ends.

Science & Technology Nonfiction Medicine

Blair is an award-winning journalist, scientist and physician who trained in emergency and critical care medicine at McMaster and Stanford Universities. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Associate Scientist at St Michael’s Hospital. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, newscasts, podcasts and medical journals. He is co-host of the CMAJ Podcast and deputy editor at healthydebate.ca. He witnesses the relationship between wealth and health on a daily basis, and reports on the undertold stories of patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that help or fail them. His first book, Death Interrupted: How modern medicine is complicating the way we die is available for pre-order and will release September 20, 2022.

Robert Lee is a Sydney-based American voice artist and narrator best known as the original voice of Mythbusters. With over 30 years of voiceover experience, he has worked across television and radio, has narrated documentaries for The Discovery Channel and was an announcer for the MTV Australia VMAs for three years. Robert has received eight nominations for Creative Arts Emmy Awards and has worked in all major sound studios across Sydney.