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Cover image for Being mortal
Language 
English
Video disc
2015
Summary 
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.
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Cover image for Being Mortal
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eAudiobook
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HOOPLA AUDIO BOOK
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Cover image for Being Mortal
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eBook
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Cover image for Being Mortal
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eAudiobook
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Cover image for Summary of Being Mortal
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eBook
Electronic Format: 
HOOPLA E BOOK
Language 
Chinese
Original Title 
最好的告别 = Being mortal / 蒋林 著.
Original Author 
蒋林, 1978- author.
Books
2018
Summary 
<Detailed summary in vernacular field only>
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Cover image for Being Mortal: by Atul Gawande | Conversation Starters
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eBook
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HOOPLA E BOOK
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Cover image for Summary of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal
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eAudiobook
Electronic Format: 
HOOPLA AUDIO BOOK
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Cover image for Being mortal
Language 
English
Audio disc
2014
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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Cover image for Being mortal :
Language 
English
Books
2014
Summary 
"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."--Back cover.
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Cover image for Being mortal :
Language 
English
Books
2014-2015
Summary 
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.
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Language 
English
Large print
2017
Summary 
"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 u
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