I'll take a book when you get it if there is one available.
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on behalf of Kerstan Magill <Kerstan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 4, 2020 2:51 PM
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Subject: [onemorechapter] Book to read for January...
Hi ladies,
Here is the book that Sherri picked for us to read this month: "Being
Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end" by Atul Gawande.
I put the book kit on hold and it was on the shelves so it should get here
pretty quick. So I have 9 extra copies that I can lend out to others who are
interested in one.
Here's the summary from the library website.
"Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , The New York Times Book
Review , NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group
guide
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth,
injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the
inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs
counter to what it should.
Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and
family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes,
devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are
allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable
discussing patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and
treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them.
In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly
revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate
limitations and failures-in his own practices as well as others'-as life draws
to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate
goal is not a good death but a good life-all the way to the very end."
Happy Reading!
Kerstan
