Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Abstract
In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the globe and history, exploring questions that range from the curious to the profound: What happens to people’s teeth as they get old? Did human beings really commit senecide, the sacrifice of the elderly? Why do the aged so dread nursing homes and hospitals? How should someone give another person the dreadful news that they will die?
This is a story told only as Atul Gawande can — penetrating people’s lives and also the systems that have evolved to govern our mortality. Those systems, he observes, routinely fail to serve — or even acknowledge — people’s needs and priorities beyond mere survival. And the consequences are devastating lives, families, and even whole economies. But, as he reveals, it doesn’t have to be this way.
Table of content
Introduction
۱ • The Independent Self
۲ • Things Fall Apart
۳ • Dependence
۴ • Assistance
۵ • A Better Life
۶ • Letting Go
۷ • Hard Conversations
۸ • Courage
Epilogue
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in my first term, that was solely a way to learn about human anatomy. Our textbooks had almost nothing on aging or frailty or dying. How the process unfolds, how people experience the end of their lives, and how it affects those around them seemed beside the point. The way we saw it, and the way our professors saw it, the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not to tend to their demise.
Ebook details:
Title: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Profile Books
Edition: International Edition edition
Langage: English
Format: eBook Pdf
Size: ۱ Mb
Year: 2015
ISBN: 1250081246, ۹۷۸۱۲۵۰۰۸۱۲۴۷
eISBN: 1847657869, ۹۷۸۱۸۴۷۶۵۷۸۶۲
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
