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In being mortal, bestselling author atul gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his. I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasnt one of them. Gawande heading for 50 has turned his attention to mortality, otherwise known as the one big thing in medicine that cannot be fixed. In being mortal, he tackles the wider issue of mortality addressing the process of aging, dying and death, without focusing on a specific area of healthcare or even his own career. So here is an audiobook about the modern experience of mortality. Being mortal downloadable audiobook the seattle public library. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too. As he points out, the waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains. The follwing is an excerpt from being mortal, by atul gawande i learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasnt one of them. Being mortal, written by atul gawande, brings to light an array of concepts involving death, mortality, aging, and terminal illness. Medicine and what matters in the end audible audiobook unabridged ant hive media author, publisher, stan jenson narrator 4. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision.
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