Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end Atul Gawande.
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TextPublisher: 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| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | 362.17 GAWA (Browse shelf) | Available | 34799 |
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| 362.1 Snyd Speaking our minds | 362.1 TAYL My stroke of insight : | 362.17 DOSA Making rounds with Oscar : | 362.17 GAWA Being mortal : | 362.18 LESS Angels on the night shift / | 362.19 LEVE The secret epidemic : | 362.19 MULL In other words, leadership : how a young mother's weekly letters to her governor helped both women brave the first pandemic year / |
Includes bibliographical references.
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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