Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Gawande, Atul
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Gurugram Penguin Random House India Private Limited 2009 - 282 - (The Collected Works of Atul Gawande) .
Doctors are trained to keep their patients alive as long as possible. But they are never taught how to prepare people to die. And yet for many patients, particularly the old and terminally ill, death is a question of when, not if. Should the medical profession rethink its approach to them? And in what way? With aging populations and hospital costs rising globally, these questions have become increasingly relevant.
9780143425571 9780143456810 (Set)
Quality of life
Aging--Physiological aspects
Critical care medicine
Mortality
362.175 GAW
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Gurugram Penguin Random House India Private Limited 2009 - 282 - (The Collected Works of Atul Gawande) .
Doctors are trained to keep their patients alive as long as possible. But they are never taught how to prepare people to die. And yet for many patients, particularly the old and terminally ill, death is a question of when, not if. Should the medical profession rethink its approach to them? And in what way? With aging populations and hospital costs rising globally, these questions have become increasingly relevant.
9780143425571 9780143456810 (Set)
Quality of life
Aging--Physiological aspects
Critical care medicine
Mortality
362.175 GAW
