Being Mortal: by Atul Gawande | Medicine and What Matters in the End | Summary & Takeaways
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Being Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande | Summary & TakeawaysBuy Only $2.99 (Save $3.00 or 50%, Regular $5.99)Read This Buy now and your book will be delivered to your Kindle device automatically.This book is a supplement to “Being Mortal” and intended to enhance the experience of reading the original book. We recommend purchasing the full version of “Being Mortal” on Amazon in addition to this book.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.Buy Only $2.99 (Save $3.00 or 50%, Regular $5.99)Read This Buy now and your book will be delivered to your Kindle device automatically.