Jessica Zitter M.D.

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Avery/Penguin Random House

In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. In Extreme Measures, Jessica Zitter, the ICU and Palliative Care specialist featured in the Oscar-nominated Neflix documentary Extremis, offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level. Filled with rich patient stories that make a compelling medical narrative, Extreme Measures enlarges the national conversation as it thoughtfully and compassionately examines an experience that defines being human. Zitter’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Atlantic.