Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

282 pages • first pub 2014 (editions) user-added

nonfiction health memoir science sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest o...

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