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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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First published: 2014
Pages: 333

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About this book

Atul Gawande examines the limits of medical training that concentrates on saving lives while giving little attention to aging, frailty and dying. Beginning with his experience as a medical student and doctor, he considers the suffering caused when illness is treated without acknowledging mortality. The book asks how medical care can respond to the human needs that remain when recovery is uncertain or impossible.

About the author

Atul Gawande

A two-minute checklist, drawn up by a team Gawande led and issued by the World Health Organization in 2008, cut deaths after surgery in hospitals across eight countries. He operates as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, teaches at Harvard, and writes for The New Yorker, where most of his books start life.