Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

Book Overview

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805095152
• ISBN13: 9780805095159
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read for everyone

This book serves as a guide to our lives and how we want the end of our lives to be - pain free and loved. Helping our loved ones navigate end of life or our own end of life is difficult. Gawande wrote a valuable book to guide us. I've given copies to all of my family and friends and recommend it in my teaching on caring for someone with dementia disease. It is helpful for anyone who is dealing with or caring for someone with a terminal condition.

A MUST read for all senior citizens and their families.