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The risk of dying from the infection, and the likelihood of requiring hospitalization or intensive medical care, increases significantly with age. When their loved one does have energy, they should encourage them to move or get out of bed to help avoid bedsores.
Stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are the 2nd and 3rd leading causes of death, responsible for approximately 11% and 6% of total deaths respectively. The trend may be due, in part, to the fact that many elderly people have chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, that can exacerbate the symptoms of COVID-19, according to the CDC. Those in the medical profession will no doubt also be impressed by the level of detail of diagnostic techniques, medical interventions and drug regimes, something that could surely only come from someone with the author’s background.
Diabetes has entered the top 10 causes of death, following a significant percentage increase of 70% since 2000. I'm Scottish so feel I can say that the grim reaper style dismal voice added to the overall depressing nature of the story. I really enjoyed this fascinating mix of medical memoir, with its realistic insight into the challenges of being a junior doctor in a busy hospital, and intriguing murder mystery. I fairly quickly ran the “least likely perpetrator” algorithm, and although it came out correctly by the end of the book, all credit to Stephenson for throwing in some decent red-herrings and a couple of surprising twists. He makes friends and things are generally going okay that is until patients begin to die patients that should have recovered.
To learn more about why persons want to hasten death during the last days, weeks or months of their lives, what kinds of suffering they fear and what they hold to be the main reasons to carry on or not carry on living, the paper offers some examples from a book written by the physician Uwe-Christian Arnold.
If anyone around the person finds it distressing, they can speak to a doctor, nurse or bereavement counsellor. Simon Stephenson’s darkly hilarious mystery, Sometimes People Die, harks back to classic English satire a la Kingsley Amis or Evelyn Waugh, perfectly updating their sarcastic yet somehow still endearing tone for modern-day readers….
That said, there are many factors that contribute to how long the entire process of dying takes for each person, such as their illness and medications. The novel’s central character is a young, unnamed Scottish doctor who takes up a position as senior house officer in a struggling London hospital. The hospital is severely understaffed, making it easy for suspicious deaths to slip under the radar until one woman dies under our narrator's care, revealing a serial killer is practicing in the hospital.
The Sun - Five Star review ‘Simon Stephenson’s diabolical and quick-witted medical thriller is not to be missed. If you are completing this survey using a desktop computer, hold down the Ctrl button to select multiple options. There is also the brave decision to interleave the narrative chapters with case studies of medical staff who have gone on to murder, looking for reasons (which are multiple) why someone would use their knowledge for the opposite of its purpose. I can see that a lay reader would find that all the in depth medical details slow down the plot - the book is longer than it needs to be, but I liked the way it’s all wrapped up.
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