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Book

Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end

Call Number

  • 362.175 G284 (CEN, EAS, MBL, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Physical Description

282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

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.

Contents

  • The independent self
  • Things fall apart
  • Dependence
  • Assistance
  • A better life
  • Letting go
  • Hard conversations
  • Courage.

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