"...our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. ...you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer." - pg 178 I wanted to start with that quote from tod...
Atul Gawande takes on the uncomfortable topics of old age and terminal illness, discussing ways in which medical approaches to these areas have resulted in less-than-optimal experiences for people facing them. In the case of care of the aged, nursing homes grew out of the basic hospital setting...
Working as I do in an integrated Health & Social Care environment, ostensibly geared to working with older citizens, this book had a resounding resonance with my own professional experience. The loss of my grandparents in recent years also bore some of the hallmarks of the tensions alluded to by Gaw...
[11/3/2015]Compelling and important.I really enjoyed this book. It may sound strange to "enjoy" a book about dying, but it was very engrossing. It deals with issues that have a lot of meaning for me, since I've lost three close family members in the last eight years and for each of them I was resp...
Interesting book about preparing for the end of life. He brought up important points of when to have the talk and who to have the talk with to make the decisions that may become necessary at the end of your own or someone else's life and to do it before it becomes a necessity and everyone is under s...
A very eye opening book on aging, what happens as we age, and where do we go, when we can no longer take care of ourselves. This book asks some very interesting questions, makes one really think about the importance of making these decisions while one is still able. What is important to us, what are...
I received this book by coincidence in my Book Riot Quarterly box, but Gawande's article, "Letting Go," has stuck with me for years after reading it in the New Yorker. I'd recommend the whole book (the essay is included), but the article can be found here:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/02...
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Harvard professor and surgeon Atul Gawande takes on the conversation we so often avoid – the one about choices at the end of life. Writing with knowledge and compassion, he takes on different aspects of end of life care - nursing homes, hospice c...
Tough reading (it was required for a health class) mainly because MAN, Gawande does NOT skimp on the details of surgery and some of the descriptions were gruesome, but gripping nonetheless.
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