{"id":3005,"date":"2018-01-25T22:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2018-07-02T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:35:33","slug":"being-mortal-medicine-and-what-matters-in-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2018\/01\/being-mortal-medicine-and-what-matters-in-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Atul Gawande – Picador, 2015<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With increased longevity in the news, you don\u2019t have to look hard to find a book about living better. But after watching his father\u2019s death, physician Atul Gawande asks if we could be dying better. The advent of improved medicine and life-extending options means those who are terminally ill may die only after years of uncomfortable and expensive interventions\u2014and without fulfilling their goals for the time remaining. Both in his medical practice and when his father became terminally ill, Gawande recognized how ingrained it is for physicians to try to fix and cure when what is needed is care and a listening caregiver. Now he wants us all to see what he sees, that everyone has desires, needs and goals, no matter how long they have left. Let\u2019s listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With increased longevity in the news, you don\u2019t have to look hard to find a book about living better. But after watching his father\u2019s death, physician Atul Gawande asks if we could be dying better.<\/p>\n

Read more Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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