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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

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    medical.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 17369.
  • 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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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I told them that i wanted them to read it for me


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Yes this is not a happy light reading but it is essential


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Cannot recommend being mortal or any of gawandes books highly enough


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is a book about some tragic flaws in the medical community that is not clinical or academic


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The implications of gawandes observations are deeply unsettling

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