Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Gawande Atul Paperback
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Gawande Atul Paperback In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only…
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Gawande Atul Paperback
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 endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. 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.
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 Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot.
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