End of life is not a topic we all want to think about, but there is a time in everyone’s life when a loved one may become critically ill. Authored by a renowned intensive care physician for over 35 years, Dr. Joseph Layon. His specialty in medicine is anesthesiology, critical care and neurocritical care.

Layon wrote this book to help families when a loved one is dying, or if you are the person ill and land in hospice or the ICU. The healthcare system has become very confusing and complicated, this book will guide you and your family through the healthcare web.  The vital takeaway from this book is how you can approach an inevitable passing of a loved and how you deal with this inevitable fact of life.

Dr. Layon has been surrounded by death for decades — in the Operating Rooms, the Intensive Care Unit, the Burn Unit, in the US, Latin America, and Africa — putting these words to “paper” was the result of the impending death of a friend and colleague, a Professor of Political Science and a fighter for social and economic justice.

“My book focuses on the realities of dying. It provides clear understanding and realistic expectations to those confronting death and immersed in a bewildering healthcare system who feel confused and misled,” Dr.Layon.

Included in the book is a distillation of experience in clinical care, research, and education over 40 years of medical practice in intensive care units of large academic health centers as well as in areas of our world with resource limitations. From ‘what to expect from your physicians and nurses to navigating difficult family dynamics, and with real-world example cases — cases that went right and those that went wrong.

“I ordered this book when my grandmother was admitted to Hospice. It was a very stressful time for everyone in our family. Dr. Layon’s book was vital to helping our family through the complex and sometimes confusing Hospice care system. We were able to advocate for our grandmother and her care at the end was very good, which gave us all comfort,”  Sarah T.

A People’s Guide to End of Life will educate you, so when the time comes that you need to advocate for a loved one, you will be prepared! This book may assist you in some of the most challenging times of your life.

Dr. Layon has functioned as a clinician, educator, investigator, division and department chair, faculty Senate Chairman, Medical School Financial “fixer”, internationalist and — in what was the most difficult and painful task of all of these — as an (inadvertent) whistleblower in a compromised health system. His years of experience he now shares with the readers of his book.

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