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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By Atul Gawande
Large Print (Paperback)
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By Atul Gawande
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This book was all the talk of 2017, and it hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Written by a practicing surgeon, it dissects the cross section of medicine and mortality, where they butt heads, and the inevitability of death.
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into...