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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, a distillation of Dr. Atul Gawande’s contemplations and research on modern geriatiric care, adds to the growing body of knowledge about aging, and death. A careful dissection of the experience of people suffering from serious illness and needing end-of-life medical care, Dr. Gawande considers the creation of Being Mortal “the most difficult challenge of his profession.” 
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is an American surgeon, public health specialist, medical journalist and a best-selling author. He teaches at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and also performs endocrine surgery at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, “a joint center for healthsystems innovation,” as well as Lifebox, a non-profit organization dedicated to minimizing surgical mortality around the world.
 
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