9781250076229-1250076226-Being Mortal

Being Mortal

ISBN-13: 9781250076229
ISBN-10: 1250076226
Edition: Reprint
Author: Atul Gawande
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781250076229
ISBN-10: 1250076226
Edition: Reprint
Author: Atul Gawande
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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Being Mortal (ISBN-13: 9781250076229 and ISBN-10: 1250076226), written by authors Atul Gawande, was published by Metropolitan Books in 2017. With an overall rating of 5.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Health Policy (Administration & Medicine Economics, Death, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Being Mortal (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Health Policy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.37.

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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. 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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Apr 10, 2023

Wife and I are in 80's. Two children in early 60's. Very, very helpful tool for all to read for fine tuning estate planning. Have purchased 3 copies.