{"product_id":"being-mortal-medicine-and-what-matters-in-the-end","title":"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, NPR, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003enow in paperback with a new reading group guide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedicine 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Here 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life―all the way to the very end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111168807197,"sku":"9781250076229","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781250076229.jpg?v=1751041099","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/being-mortal-medicine-and-what-matters-in-the-end","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}