Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn’t matter whether you were five or fifty – every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal – about what it’s like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn’t, where our ideas about death have gone wrong. Atul Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon and those of his patients and family, and learns to accept the limits of what he can do.
By: Atul Gawande
Published By: Wellcome Collection
Year: 2015
