Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.
It's a fact of life that we're all going to die sooner or later.
Being Mortal is a beautifully written and thought-provoking book on issues that everyone will eventually face for themselves or their loved ones. What measures will you take to stay alive? And is staying alive at any cost worth it if the quality of life is poor? Where will you live when you're unable
to live on your own anymore? And what features will make life bearable if you're forced to move to assisted living or a nursing home? Is further treatment or hospice care the right next step?
Gawande is a surgeon who uses the stories of actual patients--and his own father--
to illustrate his points. And many of the stories will bring a tear to your eye.
"Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology.... Medical science has given us remarkable power to push against these limits, and the potential value of this power was a central reason I became a doctor. But again and again I have seen the damage we in medicine do when we fail to acknowledge that such power is finite and always will be."
I highly recommend this book.
Being Mortal is a beautifully written and thought-provoking book on issues that everyone will eventually face for themselves or their loved ones. What measures will you take to stay alive? And is staying alive at any cost worth it if the quality of life is poor? Where will you live when you're unable
to live on your own anymore? And what features will make life bearable if you're forced to move to assisted living or a nursing home? Is further treatment or hospice care the right next step?
Gawande is a surgeon who uses the stories of actual patients--and his own father--
to illustrate his points. And many of the stories will bring a tear to your eye.
"Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology.... Medical science has given us remarkable power to push against these limits, and the potential value of this power was a central reason I became a doctor. But again and again I have seen the damage we in medicine do when we fail to acknowledge that such power is finite and always will be."
I highly recommend this book.
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