How Long to Read Borrowed Time

How Long Does it Take to Read Borrowed Time?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read Borrowed Time by Alonzo L. Plough

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Miracles of modern medicine," such as organ transplants and artificial organs, are acclaimed as the American medical community's progress against death. But is progress equivalent to success? What is the quality of life for those chosen to receive such "miracles"? What criteria select the recipients? Who pays and how does this affect the ethical choices that must be made by doctor and patient? Using dialysis—the artificial kidney machine that "solves" renal failure—as his framework for evaluation, Alonzo Plough examines the medical, economic, political, cultural, and ethical questions that remain unanswered amidst the technological triumphs. The procedures used to treat kidney failure (dialysis, The artificial kidney, and kidney transplants) are the only extreme medical technologies that are government subsidized for anyone, requiring them to live. Although once just as controversial as the use of the artificial heart is today, these procedures are now accepted as routine. Through extensive research and interviews, Plough shows how federal entitlements force the rationing of services in subtle but important ways. He states: "Survival and rehabilitation depend as much on the social class of the patient as on the miracle of the technology. The cure is not a cure but a prolongation of life, And The quality of those prolonged months or years ranges from pure agony to remarkable adjustment." This controversial study, which was recently supported by theNew England Journal of Medicine, asks: How do we differentiate between the miracle And The mirage in modern medicine?Borrowed Timeconfronts the varieties of hope invested in new machines, The nature of medical rhetoric, And The power of medical mythology, and examines their effects on our experience of health and illness. Author note:Alonzo L. Ploughis Associate Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University.

How long is Borrowed Time?

Borrowed Time by Alonzo L. Plough is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Borrowed Time Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Borrowed Time aloud.

What Reading Level is Borrowed Time?

Borrowed Time is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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