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Being Mortal - Illness Medicine & What by Atul Gawande
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Wellcome
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 safet ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Category: Science
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine--and lives.Being Mortal looks at the way modern medicine has changed the experience of dying, what the implications of this change are for each of us, ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Category: Science
In "Being Mortal," bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in th ...Show more
Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Better - A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Category: Biography & Memoir
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores grippingly how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountabl ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Category: Audio Books
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how docto ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Category: Languages and Reference
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. His vivi ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Category: Social Issue
National BestsellerThe struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision.Atul Gawande, the "New York Times ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Category: Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what ...Show more
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Category: Science & Natural History
'I don't know if Atul Gawande was born to be a surgeon -- I very much suspect so -- but he was certainly born to write. This wise and exciting account of life as a surgical resident perfectly captures the wonder and fearful responsibility that come with cutting people open in the hope of making them who ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is a stunninglty well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life anf deathe -decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary:what ...Show more