Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

About the Author

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…

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