Being Mortal
Atul Gawande · 2014
Gawande asks: what do we actually want at the end of life, and why has medicine become so bad at providing it? His investigation of aging, mortality, and the medical system's failure to honor what patients actually value is both a policy argument and a manual for dying with dignity. Changed hospital care conversations across America.
The case against
Diagnosis sharp, prescription thin. Gawande spends chapters on the history of nursing homes and assisted living that read like a policy brief, then lands on advice that amounts to asking better questions sooner. The case studies blur together until his own father's decline, which is the book everyone remembers and arrives late.
Non-Fiction · the Pro canon
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