In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation in that the goals of medicine all too often to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal shows how medicine can comfort and enhance a person’s experience at the end of life and that their last weeks or months can and should be rich and dignified.
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