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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New York, New York :
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage. | |
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