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02511aam a2200421 i 4500 001 226720CC5D7511ECBD31EEBF27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211215010111 008 170925s2017 miu db 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1594139245 020 $a 9781594139246 035 $a (OCoLC)1004657410 040 $a CGL $b eng $e rda $c CGL $d CGL $d OCLCQ $d OI6 $d TnLvILS $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 041 $a eng 050 14 $a R726.8 $b .G39 2017 082 $a 362.175 100 1 $a Gawande, Atul, $e Author $0 (DLC)n 2001016329 245 10 $a Being mortal : $b medicine and what matters in the end / $c Atul Gawande. 264 1 $a Farmington Hills, Mich : $b Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, $c 2017. 300 $a 443 pages $c 22 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 340 $n Large print $2 rda 500 $a "Thorndike Press large print basic" 500 $a Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014. 520 $a 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 with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. 650 0 $a Terminal care. $0 (DLC)sh 85134007 650 0 $a Critical care medicine. $0 (DLC)sh 85034133 650 0 $a Prognosis. $0 (DLC)sh 85107299 650 0 $a Quality of life. $0 (DLC)sh 85109445 650 0 $a Death $0 (DLC)sh 85036085 650 0 $a Attitude change $0 (DLC)sh 85009411 650 0 $a Aging $0 (DLC)sh 85002201 650 0 $a Physiology $0 (DLC)sh 85101679 650 7 $a Large print $2 local $0 (local)tlcaut2006084287205800 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215021421.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=226720CC5D7511ECBD31EEBF27ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search