Amy Goodman
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Being Mortal: Dr. Atul Gawande on How U.S. Healthcare Fails to Handle the End of Life
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October 7, 2014
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5:55Now PlayingDespite our advances in medicine, a new book calls for a radical transformation in how we approach the end of life. In "Being MortalMedicine and What Matters in the End," the physician and bestselling author Dr. Atul Gawande argues that a rigid focus on prolonging life can often undermine what is best for a dying patient. "Medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality," Gawande writes. "Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need." A surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Gawande is an acclaimed staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor at Harvard Medical School. "Being Mortal" is his fourth book, following the bestselling "The Checklist ManifestoHow to Get Things Right."
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