Atul Gawande believes that the medical profession’s job is to “enable well-being,” not just strive for survival.

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I resisted reading this for a year because it sounded so heavy: it's a personal meditation on aging, death, and dying. But Gawande, a surgeon by trade, tackles weighty issues by sharing lots of stories to go with the research, making this book eminently readable. Ultimately, this book is about what

Atul Gawande joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1998. He stepped down from the post in January, 2022, after being appointed by the Biden Administration to lead global health at USAID. Gawande is the author of four best-selling books: “Complications,” a finalist for the National Book Award; “Better”; “The Checklist Manifesto”; and “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.” He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, two National…

I read one of his other books which was great. Need to get this one! Atul Gawande - Being Mortal

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#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied…