Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
A Medicine, Science, Medical book. Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another...
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...
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Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
It is commonly phrased that we battle illness. But this remarkable book by Atul Gawande points out that it is an ill-thought battle and, dare I say it, an ill-fought one.For the last three years of my wonderful mothers life I was her carer. Coping with the advanced stages of multiple sclerosis she was mostly restricted to her bed (which... A clear, uplifting, and eloquent education on the deficiencies of the medical establishment in end-of-life care and promising progress toward improvements. This Boston surgeon has already authored accessible books on the human art behind the science of medicine with his Complications and Better. He is a master at using stories of his... A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape ones story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion...
