EAN: 9780805095159

BEING MORTAL - ATUL GAWANDE GEBUNDEN

#1 New York Times Bestseller  In Being Mortal   bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the
hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the
process of its ending   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 of the human
spirit. Nursing homes  preoccupied with safety  pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs.
Hospitals isolate the dying  checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become
moot. Doctors  committed to extending life  continue to carry out devastating procedures that
in the end extend suffering.  Gawande  a practicing surgeon  addresses his profession's
ultimate limitation  arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and
families. Gawande offers examples of freer  more socially fulfilling models for assisting the
infirm and dependent elderly  and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that
a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.  Full of eye-opening research and
riveting storytelling  Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our
experience even to the end  providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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