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| Title | : | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End |
| Author | : | Atul Gawande |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 282 pages |
| Published | : | October 7th 2014 by Metropolitan Books |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Health. Medicine. Science. Medical. Philosophy. Audiobook |
Atul Gawande
Hardcover | Pages: 282 pages Rating: 4.45 | 120037 Users | 14256 Reviews
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Medicine 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, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, 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 patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them.
In his bestselling books, Gawande has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures--in his own practices as well as others'--as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal 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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| Original Title: | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End |
| ISBN: | 0805095152 (ISBN13: 9780805095159) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://beingmortal.net/ |
| Literary Awards: | Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014), Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize (2015) |
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Ratings: 4.45 From 120037 Users | 14256 ReviewsCrit About Books Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
I learned a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasnt one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in my first term, that was solely a way to learn about human anatomy. Our textbooks had almost nothing on aging or frailty or dying. How the process unfolds, how people experience the end of their lives, and how it affects those around them seemed beside the point. The way we saw it, and the way our professors saw it, the purpose of medical schooling was to teachA very eye opening book on aging, what happens as we age, and where do we go, when we can no longer take care of ourselves. This book asks some very interesting questions, makes one really think about the importance of making these decisions while one is still able. What is important to us, what are we willing to give up, are some of those questions.The writing is clear, and concise, the information extensive but not at all confusing. The people whose life's are presented are treated as real
10/27/17 The most remarkable discussion of this book takes place between Atul Gawande and Kristin Tippett in the 10/26/17 podcast posted on the OnBeing website. In the discussion we learn that Gawande went to medicine through politics which may not surprise some of you. I had a radical insight as I listened: that doctors, by oath, are meant to provide life-giving care to rich and poor alike, without discrimination. Does that lead almost directly to the discussion about whether healthcare is a
I read this book a fortnight ago, by my brother's bedside, at a time when both he and I knew he was dying. Any book one reads in such a situation has to be absorbing, perceptive and worth the read. This one was; it was both relevant and pertinent. I read it all."We know less and less about our patients but more and more about science."The author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is Atul Gawande. He is an eminent American surgeon and author, who conducts research into public
Not long ago, I read a book entitled The Cost of Hope: A Memoir. This book was written by 'Wall Street Journal' reporter, Amanda Bennett about her family's very personal struggle with navigating the health care system during her husband, Terence Foley's battle with Kidney cancer. In the end, Mr. Foley succumbed to this disease and Ms. Bennett's book took an honest look at the lengths her family went to and the cost they incurred to battle this disease.. all of the treatments, surgeries,
Remember the scene in The Matrix when Laurence Fishburne asks Keanu Reeves whether he wants to swallow the red pill or the blue pill? In his very excellent book Dr. Gawande uses that analogy to discuss the manner in which a physician attempts to discuss treatment options with a patient facing a life threatening/ending illness. As he points out, neither choice is really what the patient needs to hear, especially an aged one. So what about a third option? This book is his attempt to open up the
This is a brilliant, fascinating, and extremely important book. I wish I had read it before my mother died because I would have asked her more probing questions about her priorities in the last couple of months of her life. Yet while Being Mortal made me regret the conversations I didn't have with my mom, I also came away feeling optimistic about the possibility for much-needed change in the way we think about age and dying in our culture. Gawande is an influential author, journalist,
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