
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Contents:
The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
ISBN:
9780805095159 (hbk.)
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HEALTH End of Life Gaw | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 4/7/2023) |
HEALTH End of Life Gaw | Blythewood | Nonfiction | In |
HEALTH End of Life Gaw | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references.