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Title Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawanda.
Author Gawande, Atul, author.
Edition First Picador international edition.
Publisher New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2015.
Copyright ©2014


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 In Library  1 week  Library Level 5  Medicine FW66 2015-G  

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Description 282 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN 9781250081247
1250081246
1250076226
9781250076229
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
Summary "Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. 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, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them."--Back cover.
Library Class Medicine FW66
Subject Terminal care.
Critical care medicine.
Aging -- Physiological aspects.
Quality of life.

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