Being Mortal

Atul Gawande 2014

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
death medicine ageing end of life

Our Take

Gawande is a surgeon who writes about what medicine cannot fix — ageing, decline, death — with devastating honesty. The book argues that we have medicalised dying to the point of cruelty. You will read this and change your advance directive.

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