I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them.
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival. Being Mortal has won awards, appeared on lists of best books, and been featured in a documentary.
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dying, geriatrics, medicine, Activities of Daily Living, Conduct of life, Attitude to Death, Critical care medicine, Terminal care, Diagnosis, Attitude (Psychology), SOCIAL SCIENCE, Elderly, Aged, Physiology, Death & Dying, Physiological aspects, Aging, Death, Quality of Life, Prognosis, Palliative treatment, Medical ethics, Older people, Death, psychological aspects, Attitudes, Large type books, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2014-10-26, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Mortality, Family and Relationships, Sterben, Sterbebegleitung, Krankenpflege, Lebensverlängerung, Quality of life, Terminal Care, Attitude to death, Aging--physiology, Activities of daily living, Aging--physiological aspects, R726.8 .g39 2014, Wb 310, 362.17/5, Dying, Geriatrics, Medicine, Attitude (psychology), Social science, Death & dying, Medical / terminal care, Nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2014-10-26, New york times bestseller, New york times reviewedPeople
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2017-09, Picador
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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
2017, Anchor Canada
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0385677022 9780385677028
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2017-09, Picador
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2015, Profile Books
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2014, Metropolitan Books
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2014, Metropolitan Books
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2014, Metropolitan Books, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
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- Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande – review (The Guardian)
- Atul Gawande’s ‘Being Mortal’ (The New York Times)
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, book review: A manifesto to help the aged (The Independent)
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