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Being mortal medicine and what matters in the end

Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a...

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Main Author: Gawande, Atul (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Terminal care.
Critical care medicine.
Older people.
Aging > Physiological aspects.
Death > Attitudes.
Prognosis.
Quality of life.
Online Access: Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
Summary: Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
Physical Description: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
ISBN: 9780805095159 (hardcover) :
0805095152 (hardcover)
Author Notes: 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.

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