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000716729 05000 $$aR726.8$$b.G39 2014
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000716729 1001_ $$aGawande, Atul,$$eauthor.
000716729 24510 $$aBeing mortal :$$bmedicine and what matters in the end /$$cAtul Gawande.
000716729 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000716729 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bMetropolitan Books :$$bHenry Holt & Company,$$c2014.
000716729 300__ $$a282 pages ;$$c22 cm.
000716729 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000716729 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000716729 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000716729 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
000716729 5050_ $$aThe independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
000716729 520__ $$aMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
000716729 650_0 $$aTerminal care.
000716729 650_0 $$aCritical care medicine.
000716729 650_0 $$aAging$$xPhysiological aspects.
000716729 650_0 $$aQuality of life.
000716729 85200 $$bgen$$hR726.8$$i.G39$$i2014
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