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.
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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.
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
