Being mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End
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- ISBN: 9781427259486 (sound recording)
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- Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2014.
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- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 January #1
Gawande presents problems and potential solutions to the question of how we can best address our mortality. Through stories and research he shows that we are shifting from a highly medicalized end of life to an experience in which we can have some sort of meaning. Surgeon, writer, and public health researcher Gawande asks how we can live out our later years in the way we desire and how best to talk to our health-care providers to achieve that. He also discusses how health-care providers can and should approach talking to aging patients and their families. Robert Petkoff reads the book in a clear, distinct voice. The book is written from the first person and so the narration comes across very well. Listeners will gain great insight into ways of thinking about the important issues of facing mortality. VERDICT An excellent book for everyone but of particular interest to health-care providers and those approaching their later years or caring for the elderly.âEric Albright, Tufts Univ. Health Sciences Lib., Boston
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