Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Condition:Like New Death—four horsemen riding their screaming

Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds

discerning what one is meant to do

once the dust settles

What did I do wrong

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End Condition:Like New Death—four horsemen riding their screamingIn 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