Being Mortal
Subtitle: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Edition: First Picador Edition (1)
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2017-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781250076229
Copyright date: 2014
Description: Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of birth, injury, and infectious 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 do. Through eye-opening research and grip- ping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering produced by medicine's neglect of the wishes people might have beyond mere survival. To find out what those wishes are, we need to ask. We haven't been asking, but we can learn.

Riveting, honest, and humane, this remarkable book, which has already changed the national conversation on aging and death, shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life —all the way to the very end.
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Notes: US