EAN: 9781250076229

BEING MORTAL - ATUL GAWANDE KARTONIERT (TB)

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post   The New York Times Book Review   NPR 
and Chicago Tribune  now in paperback with a new reading group guide   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  Gawande 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  Atul Gawande  a
practicing surgeon  has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Here 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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