Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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.
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.
Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family,...


