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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780805095159 (hardcover) :
  • 0805095152 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.17/5 23
LOC classification:
  • R726.8.G39 2014
NLM classification:
  • WB 310
Contents:
The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
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.
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Participation and Productive Aging

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).

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

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.

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