Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal examines the role of medicine when illness, aging, and mortality shape the choices ahead. With attention to what matters at the end of life, the book considers how care can honor human priorities alongside medical concerns.
About This Book
Being Mortal explores the relationship between medicine and the realities of mortality.
Atul Gawande considers what matters to people as they approach the end of life.
The book focuses on the goals of care, the limits of treatment, and the human concerns that accompany serious illness and aging.
It offers a thoughtful examination of how medicine can respond to patients as whole people.
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