TY  - GEN
AU  - Gawande, Atul
TI  - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
SN  - 9780143425571
U1  - 362.175 GAW 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Gurugram
PB  - Penguin Random House India Private Limited
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Aging--Physiological aspects
KW  - Critical care medicine
KW  - Mortality
N2  - 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
ER  -