Cover of Summary - Being Mortal Atul Gawande - Chapter Compilation in 35 Pages Or Less! - Medicine and What Matters in the End

Summary - Being Mortal Atul Gawande - Chapter Compilation in 35 Pages Or Less! - Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

40 pages2016CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN 9781539774037
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About this book

Being Mortal:Story Shortened into 35 minutes or less!Being Mortal is a book written by Atul Gawande and it is a book that closely observes concepts of death, aging and mortality. When trying to bring these topics to his readers as closest as possible, Gawande uses many examples from real life. Some of them include examples of case studies of his fellow doctors, while some of them include his own research, which he did while observing his own patients and even family members. This book is also a good guide for people who want to know how to live and how to help their family members through their last days, months or years of life. In his book, Gawande also speaks about how elderly people take care of themselves and how do they live when taking care of themselves becomes impossible due to sickness and/or old age. Here he tries to objectively comprehend everything that institutions like hospitals, nursing homes and hospices offer and offers both negative and positive aspects of those institutions. To show his readers that what he is talking about in his book is genuine and authentic, Gawande uses many personal stories that are intermingled with each of segments mentioned above. Being Mortal is an interesting literature, because even though it talks about 'heavy' things like mortality, aging and the inevitable death, it does so by objectively talking about that from a perspective of an expert. Here Is A Preview Of What You Will Get:In Being Mortal , you will get a shortened version of the storyIn Being Mortal , you will find the book analyzed to further strengthen your knowledge.In Being Mortal , you will get some fun multiple choice quizzes, along with answers to help you learn about the book.Get a copy, and learn everything about Being Mortal.

Publication Details

Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published
2016
Pages
40
ISBN
9781539774037
Language
en

About Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. For more than 20 years, he has practiced general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. ([source][1]) Photo Credit: By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Amar_Karodkar&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Amar Karodkar (page does not exist)">Amar Karodkar</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64884113">Link</a> [1]: http://atulgawande.com/about/

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