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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end  Cover Image E-audiobook E-audiobook

Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.

Gawande, Atul, (author.). Petkoff, Robert, (narrator.). Read by Robert Petkoff. (Cast).

Summary:

Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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  • ISBN: 9781427259486
  • ISBN: 1427259488
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (09 hr., 03 min., 52 sec.)) : digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Macmillan Audio, [2014]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Activities of daily living -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Robert Petkoff.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on compact disc version record.
Subject: Terminal care.
Older people.
Aging.
Death.
Prognosis.
Quality of life.
Montana
Aging.
Death.
Older people.
Prognosis.
Quality of life.
Terminal care.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Downloadable audio books.


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