Being mortal :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, c2014.
Summary
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
Call Number
362.175/GAWA
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
ISBN
9780805095159 9781250076229
Being mortal :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 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.
Call Number
LP/362.175/GAWA
Publication Date
2014-2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781410478122
Being mortal. Widescreen
Format:
DVD
System details note
DVD, widescreen, stereo, NTSC, region 1.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Production / Publication Information
[Place of publication not identified] : Frontline, [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.
Call Number
DOCUMENTARY/DVD/362.175/BEIN
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781627893022
UPC
841887024310
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