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Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end

By Atul , Gawande

Book information

Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.;Picador
ISBN
9781250076229, 1250076226
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
764 kB (782460 bytes)
Edition
First Picador edition
Pages
287 pages : charts ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Aging--Physiological aspects;Critical care medicin

Description

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, practicing surgeon Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. but a good life-all the way to the very end.

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