![]() ![]() Gawande shares personal stories of his patients' and his own relatives' experiences, the realities of old age which involve broken hips and dementia, overwhelmed families and expensive geriatric care, and loneliness and loss of independence. ![]() He recommends that instead of focusing on survival, practitioners should work to improve quality of life and enable well-being. Gawande calls for a change in the way that medical professionals treat patients approaching their ends. Being Mortal has won awards, appeared on lists of best books, and been featured in a documentary.īeing Mortal is a meditation on how people can better live with age-related frailty, serious illness, and approaching death. ![]() He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the Endīeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. For the film adaptation, see Being Mortal (film). ![]()
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