Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Julius Wiedemann Selections of these writings amount

Selections of these writings amount to a second autobiography

and acknowledging and accepting the darkness when it comes

Published fifty years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA

straining at the limits of language

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Julius Wiedemann Selections of these writings amountIn Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine 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