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008    140503s2014    nyua     b    000 0 eng   
010      2014017442 
016 7  101631898|2DNLM 
019    869437844|a869770772 
020    9780805095159|q(hardcover) 
020    0805095152|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)879416935|z(OCoLC)869437844|z(OCoLC)869770772 
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050  4 R726.8|b.G39 2014 
060 10 WB 310 
082 00 362.17/5|223 
092    362.1750 
100 1  Gawande, Atul. 
245 10 Being mortal :|bmedicine and what matters in the end /
       |cAtul Gawande. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, New York :|bMetropolitan Books, Henry Holt and 
       Company,|c2014. 
300    282 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) 
505 0  The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence --
       Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard 
       conversations -- Courage. 
520    Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's 
       ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the 
       desired goal for patients and families of the terminally 
       ill. 
520    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. 
650  0 Terminal care. 
650  0 Critical care medicine. 
650  0 Aging|xPhysiological aspects. 
650  0 Quality of life. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xDeath & Dying.|2bisacsh  
650  7 Aging|xPhysiological aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00800323  
650  7 Critical care medicine.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00883647  
650  7 Quality of life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01085009  
650  7 Terminal care.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01147835  
650 12 Terminal Care. 
650 22 Activities of Daily Living. 
650 22 Aged. 
650 22 Aging|xphysiology. 
650 22 Attitude to Death. 
650 22 Prognosis. 
914    MID.b23743372 
914    FARM214193 
994    92|bCKE