03603cam a2200637 4500 1465947854 TxAuBib 20240725120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781627790550 1627790551 B00JCW0BCY Amazon 2da23993-41cb-4c04-b08f-6acd579b9d97 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1665461 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal [Libby eBook] : Medicine and What Matters in the End. Henry Holt and Co., 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1275kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. medical care at the end of life. nonfiction books best sellers. top five regrets of the dying. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. ny times best seller list. when breath becomes air. books for med students. This is going to hurt. medical philosophy. end of life care. philosophy books. Death and Dying. Quality of life. medical memoir. medical books. doctor books. Healthcare. med school. true story. Mortality. Medicine. Doctors. health. Aging. Death. HTML:<p><b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br /> In <i>Being Mortal</i>, 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<br /></b><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, <i>Being Mortal</i> asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.</p>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Medical. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-07-24 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/being-mortal-2da239?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/being-mortal-2da239?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/being-mortal-2da239?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID