Being Mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End

Name: Being Mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End
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ISBN: 9781250076229

ISBN-10: 1250076226

ISBN-13: 9781250076229

Edition: N/A

Authors: Atul Gawande

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Named a Best Book of the Year byThe Washington Post Apple iBooks The New York Times Book Review NPR Amazon Chicago TribuneMedicine 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, 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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 9/5/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.15" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Atul Gawande is a surgical resident in Boston and staff writer on medicine and science for The New Yorker. A former Rhodes scholar, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.