Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Jay Golan blackness in a predominantly white

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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Jay Golan blackness in a predominantly whiteIn Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. 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