Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
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“.@atul_gawande's BEING MORTAL was spectacular. Spartan, razorsharp prose. And a genuine rarity: a book that needed to exist. | Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. | Halfway through @Atul_Gawande's Being Mortal. It's an essential, important and deep book. Also just finished @morganhousel's Psychology Of Money. Haven't read a novel in about a month. | The books of my life. I?ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors. | The books of my life. I’ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors.”
Source →“.@atul_gawande's BEING MORTAL was spectacular. Spartan, razorsharp prose. And a genuine rarity: a book that needed to exist. | Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. | Halfway through @Atul_Gawande's Being Mortal. It's an essential, important and deep book. Also just finished @morganhousel's Psychology Of Money. Haven't read a novel in about a month. | The books of my life. I?ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors. | The books of my life. I’ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors.”
Source →“.@atul_gawande's BEING MORTAL was spectacular. Spartan, razorsharp prose. And a genuine rarity: a book that needed to exist. | Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. | Halfway through @Atul_Gawande's Being Mortal. It's an essential, important and deep book. Also just finished @morganhousel's Psychology Of Money. Haven't read a novel in about a month. | The books of my life. I?ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors. | The books of my life. I’ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors.”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Amy Cuddy and Brian Koppelman
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Medicine, Medical, and Nutrition.
In 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 endingMedicine 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 medic...
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“.@atul_gawande's BEING MORTAL was spectacular. Spartan, razorsharp prose. And a genuine rarity: a book that needed to exist. | Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. | Halfway through @Atul_Gawande's Being Mortal. It's an essential, important and deep book. Also just finished @morganhousel's Psychology Of Money. Haven't read a novel in about a month. | The books of my life. I?ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors. | The books of my life. I’ve been wanting to assemble them for a long time. The stack is not complete, but each one of these books is written into my mind and heart and soul. Each one is a little part of who I am. Thank you, authors.”
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