Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
Gawande, Atul
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande. - First edition. - New York : Metropolitan Books , 2014 - 282 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
Activities of daily living -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
English
9780805095159
Terminal Care
Activites of daily living
Aged
Aging---Physiology
Attitude to death
Prognosis
Quality of life
R726.8 / .G39 2014
362.175
WB 310
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande. - First edition. - New York : Metropolitan Books , 2014 - 282 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
Activities of daily living -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
English
9780805095159
Terminal Care
Activites of daily living
Aged
Aging---Physiology
Attitude to death
Prognosis
Quality of life
R726.8 / .G39 2014
362.175
WB 310
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