
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Narrated by:
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Robert Petkoff
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By:
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Atul Gawande
Number one New York Times best seller
In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.
Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life - all the way to the very end.
©2014 Atul Gawande (P)2014 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...




















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The information in this book had a huge impact on how I view living and dying. I just lost my mom last month and realizing that her death was peaceful and as she wanted it has brought me comfort while missing her terribly. I realize now that having tough conversations before it's too late can make everyone's life better during and after losing someone.Which character – as performed by Robert Petkoff – was your favorite?
The narrator did an excellent job. I could listen to his voice again for any book.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
You will have moments of a little chuckle but the subject matter makes you think throughout the book. You will probably cry---it is about dying.Any additional comments?
I have already started reading The checklist Manifesto by Dr. Gawande. Brilliant, brilliant man.Read this first!
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