Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
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Large Print edition.
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437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Nonfiction
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English

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Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428).
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Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death, what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Now Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this has produced. He examines the profession's limitations and failures as life draws to a close, and he shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death, but a good life -- until the very end.

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