Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and what Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

282 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir science sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of ageing and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the globe and hist...

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