Gawande, Atul, interviewer, screenwriter. Jennings, Tom, 1961- television producer, television director, screenwriter. Mucciolo, Lauren, television producer. Pahuja, Nisha, television director. Lyman, Will, 1948- narrator.
Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
2015
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Video Disc
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Being mortal [videorecording]/ Gawande, Atul, interviewer, screenwriter.
Gawande, Atul, author.
Edition
First edition.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
2014
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Books
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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Gawande, Atul, author.
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Gawande, Atul. Petkoff, Robert.
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.
2014
Format
Audio disc
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Being mortal [sound recording] : [medicine and what matters in the end] / Gawande, Atul.
Gawande, Atul.
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Large print edition.
2015 2014
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Large print
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Being mortal [text (large print)] : medicine and what matters in the end / Gawande, Atul.
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