| Edition |
First Picador edition. |
| Description |
287 pages : charts ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Reprint, issued with discussion questions. Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014. |
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"Discussion questions included inside"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index. |
| Summary |
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, practicing surgeon Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. but a good life-all the way to the very end. |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Critical care medicine.
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Aging -- Physiological aspects.
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Quality of life.
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Aging -- Physiological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00800323
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Critical care medicine. (OCoLC)fst00883647
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Quality of life. (OCoLC)fst01085009
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Terminal care. (OCoLC)fst01147835
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MEDICAL / Caregiving.
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MEDICAL / Geriatrics.
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MEDICAL / Terminal Care.
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| Other Editions: |
Reprint of (manifestation): Gawande, Atul. Being mortal. First edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014 9780805095159 (DLC) 2014017442 (OCoLC)879416935 |
| ISBN |
9781250076229 (paperback) |
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1250076226 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
99974226563 |
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