Medicine has triumphed successful modern times by transforming the information of childbirth, injury, and illness from harrowing to manageable. But erstwhile it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine tin bash often runs antagonistic to what it should do.
Through eye-opening probe and gripping stories of his ain patients and family, Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced successful his newest publication “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters successful the End.” Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his assemblage successful past books. Now, helium examines its eventual limitations and failures – successful his ain practices arsenic good arsenic others’ – arsenic beingness draws to a close. And, helium discovers however we tin bash better. He follows a hospice caregiver connected her rounds, a geriatrician successful his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds radical who amusement america however to person the hard conversations and however to guarantee we ne'er sacrifice what radical truly attraction about.
Riveting, honest, and humane, “Being Mortal” shows that the eventual extremity is not a bully death, but a bully beingness – each the mode to the precise end.
“Being Mortal” is the last publication successful the Estes Valley Library’s Book Club For Mortals. Sign up and assertion 1 of 10 escaped copies. Then articulation america for speech connected Thursday, November 10 astatine 1 p.m., and Thursday, December 8 astatine 1 p.m. Note that this is simply a two-part bid and attendees should program to be some treatment days. Sessions volition beryllium offered in-person oregon connected Zoom.
Book Club For Mortals is focused connected discussing books related to end-of-life and subjects related to being mortal. Please enactment this is not a grief oregon bereavement group, conscionable a abstraction for radical to person unfastened discussions connected absorbing books. Book Club For Mortals is led by Mindy Rickard, the Program Coordinator for the Larimer Advance Care Planning Program.
Additional details and registration are disposable astatine estesvalleylibrary.org.
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