Being Mortal by Atul Gawande | Non-Fiction Book Club

You're welcome to join us for the upcoming book club meeting.
We will discuss the themes from Atul Gawande book "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End".

The event will take place on February 27:nd, 17:30 at Condeco Kompassen.
You do not have to read the books in order to join these meetings.

Hope to see you there and look forward to interesting discussions.

Don't forget to join the goodread group to learn more and decide about books to come.

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Book Summary:

In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

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.

Text Source: goodreads.com
Cover Source: thedublinshield.com
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