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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end Atul Gawande.

By: Gawande, Atul [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780805095159Subject(s): Terminal care | Critical care medicine | Aging -- Physiological aspects | Prognosis | Quality of lifeDDC classification: 362.17/5 LOC classification: R726.8 | .G39 2014
Contents:
The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
Summary: Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
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Book A J M Library 868-5076
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The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.

Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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