Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end

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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 s...

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Main Author: Gawande, Atul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Edition:Large Print edition.
Series:Thorndike Press Large Print Basic
Subjects:
Terminal care.
Critical care medicine.
Aging > Physiological aspects.
Death > Attitudes.
Prognosis.
Quality of life.
MEDICAL / Terminal Care.
Large type books.

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