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Large print book

Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 362.175 G284 (CEN)

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Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Information

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

Physical Description

437 pages (large print) ; 23 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.

Notes

Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014.

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