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Sep 23, 2024 · An IHE Book Review: Being Mortal. 23 September 2024. We've got a new book review series to help introduce you to new concepts in healthcare and healthcare engineering. Here's our review on ‘Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande. This would be a book I’d like to read on my deathbed.
Sep 16, 2024 · Being Mortal is an eye-opener in the truest sense. It makes you think hard. It throws reality in your face and forces you to consider your options- for yourself and your loved ones.
Sep 4, 2024 · Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 197,636 ratings, average rating, 21,863 reviews Open Preview
Sep 15, 2024 · Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows that the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life — all the way to the very end.
Sep 11, 2024 · For our October Book Club selection, we will be reading and discussing “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Atul Gawande. Published in 2014 and available in paperback, this bestselling, groundbreaking book changed the way we discuss death and dying.
1 day ago · Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. [1] . The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. [2] . Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms.
Sep 10, 2024 · 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, and what we would need to do to change a system that knows a lot about prolonging life but little about tending to death.
