I’ll take one please?
On Jan 4, 2020, at 14:51, Kerstan Magill <Kerstan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
