Title Being mortal [UNABRIDGED sound recording] : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande.

Edition

Unabridged.

Publication Info.

New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, 2014.

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1777293~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
Nichols Adult Books on CD Nonfiction	362.175 GAW	AVAILABLE

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Description	7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD, audio digital ; 4 3/4 in.
	digital optical rda
	audio file CD audio rda
Performer	Read by Robert Petkoff.
Note	Unabridged.
	Includes a bonus interview with the author.
System Details	Compact disc.
Summary	Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Gawande asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
Contents	The independent self -- Things fall apart -- Dependence -- Assistance -- A better life -- Letting go -- Hard conversations -- Courage.
Subject	Terminal care -- Sound recordings.
	Critical care medicine -- Sound recordings.
	Older people -- Sound recordings.
	Aging -- Physiological aspects -- Sound recordings.
	Death -- Attitudes -- Sound recordings.
	Prognosis -- Sound recordings.
	Quality of life -- Sound recordings.
Genre	Audiobooks.
Added Author	Petkoff, Robert, narrator.
ISBN	9781427244239
	1427244235
Music No.	11105086

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