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Nov 6, 2014 · His new book, “Being Mortal,” is a personal meditation on how we can better live with age-related frailty, serious illness and approaching death.
Oct 7, 2014 · 193,050 ratings21,336 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2014) In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
Oct 7, 2014 · A prominent surgeon and journalist takes a cleareyed look at aging and death in 21st-century America. Modern medicine can perform miracles, but it is also only concerned with preserving life rather than dealing with end-of-life issues. Drawing on his experiences observing and helping terminally ill patients, Gawande ( The Checklist Manifesto ...
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.
Oct 7, 2014 · Review. “Being Mortal, Atul Gawande's masterful exploration of aging, death, and the medical profession's mishandling of both, is his best and most personal book yet.” ―Boston Globe. “American medicine, Being Mortal reminds us, has prepared itself for life but not for death.
Oct 16, 2014 · In “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” Atul Gawande explores how to bring meaning and purpose to the last phase of life.
Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows that the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life – all the way to the very end. Reviews “A deeply affecting, urgently important book – one not just about dying and the limits of medicine but about living to the last with autonomy, dignity, and joy.”
