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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande
Language: English Publication details: Haryana: Penguin, 2015.Edition: 1st editionDescription: 282 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780143425571
- 362.175 ATU
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| English Books | Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, A WING | 362.175 ATU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 689216 |
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Medicine 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.
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