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001			on1004657410
003			OCoLC
005			20190610002820.0
008			170925s2017 miu db 000 0 eng d
040			_aCGL _beng _erda _cCGL _dCGL _dOCLCQ _dOI6 _dBKL _dZQP _dDUD _dNFG
019			_a1010990739
020			_a9781594139246 _q(large print) _q(paperback)
020			_a1594139245 _q(large print) _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1004657410 _z(OCoLC)1010990739
092			_a362.175 _bG284
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aGawande, Atul, _eauthor. _961794
245	1	0	_aBeing mortal : _bmedicine and what matters in the end / _cAtul Gawande.
264		1	_aFarmington Hills, Mich : _bLarge Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, _c2017.
300			_a443 pages (large print) ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
340			_nlarge print. _2rda
500			_a"Thorndike Press large print basic"
500			_aOriginally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014.
505	0		_aThe independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
520			_a"From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine?and lives. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients? anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. And families go along with all of it. In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures?in his own practices as well as others??as life draws to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about. 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"--Back cover.
650		0	_aTerminal care. _997810
650		0	_aCritical care medicine. _9259184
650		0	_aAging _xPhysiological aspects. _9259183
650		0	_aDeath _xAttitudes. _9275418
650		0	_aPrognosis. _9275419
650		0	_aQuality of life. _985476
655		0	_aLarge type books. _9848
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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