Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndMedicine 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

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ISBN-13: 978-0147514011

and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking

Publisher: Washington Square Press (June 5

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