Dr Jasvir Singh Grewal A Conference on End
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Dr Jasvir Singh Grewal A Conference on End of life Care. The role of FAITH
Who am I? • • • SIKH FAMILY MAN NEUROSCIENTIST DOCTOR EYE SURGEON
Divine name is the medicine for all ailments. ANG 274 GGSJ • SARAB ROGH KA AUKUD NAAM • NA ME= NO ME (REMOVAL OF “I” NESS) • DISEASE HAS NOWHERE TO ATTACH
SIKH / DR / EYE SURGEON/ NEUROSCIENTIST • SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT - SQ • EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT- EQ • INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT- IQ • Ph. D in cancer dies of brain cancer • NASA scientist- all modern healthcare said no cure. Cured hearing gurbani (FAITH) at golden temple.
Role of medicine? • Not just ensuring health and survival • To enable wellbeing • Reasons one wishes to be alive • Not just end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way
Peak-End rule: pleasure or pain • Final ratings-an average of 1 single worst moment and 2 the very end • Nobel prize-Daniel Kahneman. Book: Thinking Fast and Slow Brain has 2 ways to evaluate experiences 1 in the moment, 2 afterwards People have 2 selves: 1 Experiencing self, 2 remembering self-judges on 2 timepoints Conclusion: bad endings skew pain score upwards
We have room to act, to shape our stories but with time it’s within narrower and narrower confines • 1 cruel failure: to recognize they have priorities beyond being safe and living longer • 2 the chance to shape ones story is essential to sustaining meaning in life • 3 opportunities: to refashion our institutions, culture, conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for last chapters of everyone’s lives
Vital questions- Palliative Care • 1 what is your understanding of situation & potential outcomes? • 2 what are your fears? • 3 what are your hopes? • 4 what are trade offs you are willing to make & not willing to make? • 5 what is best course of action that best serves this understanding?
Kito upje? Ke rahe? Ke mahe samave? Question • Where are we from? Answer CREATOR • Why are we here? Connect with Creator/Creation • (bhei prapat manuk dihoria gobind milan ke eh teri baria) • Where do we go? CREATOR THERE IS NO END OF LIFE
GOAL OF FAITH: IN END OF LIFE CARE? LIFE UNTIL THE END Sources 1 GURU GRANTH SAHIB JI. 2 BEING MORTAL: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.
GURU GRANTH SAHIB JI • Is a modern, scientific and universal scripture • Which creates congenial environment for unity of God, equality of human being, interfaith dialogue, human dignity and freedom for one and all. • It also mentions the need to upkeep the purity and natural greenery of mother earth. • It is a highway to love, faith and truthful living • Prof. J. C Archer. . the religion of the Guru Granth sahib is a universal and practical religion. The world needs today its message of peace and love.
