It was recommended to me by my daughter's radiographer at Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh.
The book also gave me insight to the problems medical people face in our new high-tech era where it is possible to prolong life over and over again.
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Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
. If we only could talk freely about death and dying, our life would be richer and happier. Unable to add item to Wish List. 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 endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. It isn't often I read reviews about a book stating, "This changed my perspective," and then the book delivers in spades. Nobody can deny the tremendous advances made by medical science since the second world war. Being Mortal is an important call-to-action for rethinking and improving virtually every aspect of end-of-life care. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, and over one million other books are available for. Since those days I have red endless books on death and dying: this is undoubtedly one of the best. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2018. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Learn more about the program. If you put in the picture that in Italy - maybe "the" Catholic Country of all - physical pain has always been regarded as the sacred way to get to heaven, (a mentality that is still lingering here and there) - then you can imagine what she went through.
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I hope this book will start many new discussions within medical professionals and families alike. . “Being Mortal – Medicine and What Matters in the End” Many of the case studies and personal experiences that surgeon and writer Atul Gawande depicts in his new book “Being Mortal” resonated with my own recent history of the deaths of my family members.