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Storyline. A meditation on how people can better live with age-related frailty, serious illness, and approaching death. Gawande calls for a change in the way that medical professionals treat patients approaching their ends.
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- Seth Rogen, Bill Murray, Keke Palmer
5 days ago · Deathbed books probably isn’t something we think about but this book got me thinking about it. ‘Being Mortal’ helps us come to terms with the thought of death so we can have a better way of life because what I’ve come to realise from this book is that the end isn’t just simply existing, being fed and breathing, isn’t enough.
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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,...
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. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic,...
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. Katherine Boo
We have come to medicalize aging, frailty, and death, treating them as if they were just one more clinical problem to overcome. However, it is not only medicine that is needed in ones declining years but life a life with meaning, a life as rich and full as possible under the circumstances. Being Mortal is not only wise and deeply moving, it is an ...
Oct 6, 2014 · Here are 7 things I learned from Gawande’s book: 1. Independent living is directly related to having children—particularly daughters. There’s an old saying that goes, “A son’s a son till he takes a wife, but a daughter’s a daughter for all her life.”. Research bears this out.
Feb 11, 2015 · Watch the Trailer. Produced by: Tom Jennings. FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are...
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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.
- Atul Gawande
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Mar 17, 2020 · Atul Gawande explores death, dying and why even doctors struggle to discuss being mortal with patients, in this Emmy-nominated documentary. “Aging and dying — you can’t fix those," says Dr ...
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