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Medicine and What Matters in the End
Metropolitan Books
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
304 pages
ISBN: 0805095152
EAN: 9780805095159
Kindle: B00JCW0BCY
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Non-Fiction
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.
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.
Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long
after the goals of cure have become moot. 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 and families. 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. 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.
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