Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (603 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00NPAJ32S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: How medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. 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. 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.. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. 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. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation
This book could be a game changer This book could be a game changer, if enough people read it and take it to heart. Atul Gawande addresses end-of-life care, and how we're getting it wrong, both within the medical establishment and in our families.Dr. Gawande's book focuses both on medical procedures and livi. Miss Barbara said "The End Matters". I became a fan of Atul Gawande upon reading his first book in ""The End Matters"" according to Miss Barbara. I became a fan of Atul Gawande upon reading his first book in 2002: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. In reading many of his previous books I found he always asked questions: Why do we do things; for what purpose; is this working to achieve the best r. 00""The End Matters"" according to Miss Barbara. I became a fan of Atul Gawande upon reading his first book in 2002: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. In reading many of his previous books I found he always asked questions: Why do we do things; for what purpose; is this working to achieve the best r. : Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. In reading many of his previous books I found he always asked questions: Why do we do things; for what purpose; is this working to achieve the best r. "Somethings to Consider toward the End" according to Margaret N. Flannery. Book is mostly well written. It is about death and dying, so be prepared to read it when one is in a good frame of mind. It profiles patients who are terminal and how they and their families coped with the specter of death. Doctor Gawande relates the stories of courageous pa