A surgeon examines why modern medicine has become so bad at the one thing it cannot cure -- and what a good death might actually look like.
About This Book
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.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want their assumptions challenged: books that raise questions without easy answers. The prose is accessible: you can read this quickly and it never asks too much of you. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. If you want clear answers and a satisfying resolution, look elsewhere.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something challenging and thought-provoking, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
Being Mortal explores survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people, family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen, and identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be.
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