Gives advice on offering condolences, helping children understand death, coping with grief, dealing with the loss of a pet, and handling the details of a funeral
A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and ...
This review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande provides a chapter by chapter detailed summary followed by an analysis and critique of the strengths and weaknesses of this book.Gawande draws on clinical ...
In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.
Clarifies what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, what it is to be alive, and the significance of extinction.
This review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande provides a chapter by chapter detailed summary followed by an analysis and critique of the strengths and weaknesses of this book.
An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
I was shocked.” —NPR “Stunning twists and turns.” —BCCB (starred review) In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a ...
Please Note: This is a companion guide based on the work Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande not affiliated to the original work or author in any way and does not contain any text of the original work.
While in North Carolina to help her lover take custody of his son, FBI agent Lily Yu becomes involved in an investigation involving death magic, and as the violence escalates, Lily goes up against a killer not of this world. Original.
This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.