What type of book is being mortal?

Self-help book
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End/Genres

How long is being mortal?

The average reader will spend 5 hours and 15 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute). Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable.

Who wrote being mortal?

Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End/Authors
10, FRONTLINE follows renowned writer and surgeon Atul Gawande, author of the book “Being Mortal,” as he explores the relationships between doctors and patients who are near death.

What is the contribution of the book being mortal?

“Being Mortal” is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on aging, death and dying. It contains unsparing descriptions of bodily aging and the way it often takes us by surprise. Gawande is a gifted storyteller, and there are some stirring, even tear-inducing passages here. The writing can be evocative.

What do you need to know about being mortal?

The author suggests that courage is required for both aging and sickness: the courage to confront the reality of mortality and the courage to act on the truth of that reality. Have the courage and the wisdom, dear reader, to explore these difficult topics presented in the pages of this transformative book.

What happens in a nursing home in being mortal?

Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them.

Who is the author of the book Being Mortal?

Being Mortal is not only wise and deeply moving, it is an essential and insightful book for our times, as one would expect from Atul Gawande, one of our finest physician writers.” – Oliver Sacks “American medicine, Being Mortal reminds us, has prepared itself for life but not for death.

When is being mortal on the frontline?

Being Mortal. February 10, 2015 // 54:11. FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life.