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Oct 7, 2014 · Book Summary. 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.
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This book is written by Dr. Atul Gawande who is a surgeon and public health researcher. He has written a couple of books on his experience as a surgeon, and I’ve read most of them, but Being Mortal has haunted me every day since I first listened to the audiobook. It’s an overarching look at elderly people and geriatric care.
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.
Oct 7, 2014 · Discuss the often-politicized end-of-life questions raised in the closing chapters of Being Mortal. If you had to make a choice for a loved one between ICU and hospice, what would you most want to know from them?
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Oct 7, 2014 · Atul Gawande, as a doctor, has had considerable exposure to issues of death and dying, but when his father was diagnosed with brain cancer, Gawande was motivated to look into how end of life care was being handled across the board. Being Mortal is the distillation of what he learned.
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I highly recommend this book. I've read Gawande's other books and enjoyed them. Being Mortal is incredibly well written but like you said, it's about things we'd rather not think about so I couldn't quite finish it when I started reading it, I found it stressful.
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Jul 1, 2015 · Review. An impassioned, broad-ranging and deeply personal exploration ― Guardian. Medicine, Being Mortal reminds us, has prepared itself for life but not for death. This is Atul Gawande's most powerful, and moving, book -- Malcolm Gladwell.
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