- dying, geriatrics, medicine, Activities of Daily Living
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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- Author
- Atul Gawande
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 283
- Publisher
- Fayard, Zhejiang ren min chu ban she, Greenhaven Press
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese, dan
- ISBN
- 9781627790550
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Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. For more than 20 years, he has practiced general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. ([source][1]) Photo Credit: By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Amar_Karodkar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Amar Karodka
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