Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
(2014)
By:
Gawande, Atul
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
362.175/GAWANDE,A
3 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780805095159 (hbk.), 0805095152 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill