Gawande, Atul, author.
New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277).
- The independent self — Things fall apart — Dependence — Assistance — A better life — Letting go — Hard conversations — Courage.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Terminal care.
- Critical care medicine.
- Aging — Physiological aspects.
- Quality of life.
- Terminal Care.
- Activities of Daily Living.
- Aged.
- Aging — physiology.
- Attitude to Death.
- Prognosis.
- Quality of Life.
Requested by Koehler, B.