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Highlights
Quality
Very inspirational advice on how to help patients cope with the process of death
This book provides the reader with the ways one can approach some of the toughest moments of life
Gawande advises trained professionals should discuss end of life choices with the patient
I would rather have quality vs quantity
Price
In 2011 a study of breast cancer found the average cost was 28k the first year–for testing surgery radiation and chemotherapy
Rationing health care as a means to control costs is upsetting to many
Competitiveness
I have felt this way for many a decade
A great read concerning a difficult topic
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 16,414 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 3 2022.
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I told them that i wanted them to read it for me
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I don’t know if the product said that it is in large print but the book is big and heavy and feels more like a photo copy version
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Yes this is not a happy light reading but it is essential
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Cannot recommend being mortal or any of gawandes books highly enough
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It is a book about some tragic flaws in the medical community that is not clinical or academic
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Medical professionals have created with the best of intentions a web of destructive assumptions that sick people and their families easily embrace out of ignorance and wishful thinking
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Because the marvels of modern medicine do allow us to continue to extend life longer and longer but at great cost we have created a cycle of delusion and deception that has immensely tragic consequences
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The implications of gawandes observations are deeply unsettling
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