Book Review: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

In her review of <em>Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End</em> written by Atul Gawande, MD, Sue Sutton shares both the insights of Dr. Gawande and their important perspectives for person-centered experience. She reinforces that in this day of increased focus on und...

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Autor principal:	Sue Sutton
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Publicado:	The Beryl Institute 2015
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9a0dab9eb8434da6ba21833c17b4b0ca2021-11-15T03:55:59ZBook Review: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End2372-0247https://doaj.org/article/9a0dab9eb8434da6ba21833c17b4b0ca2015-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://pxjournal.org/journal/vol2/iss1/22https://doaj.org/toc/2372-0247In her review of <em>Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End</em> written by Atul Gawande, MD, Sue Sutton shares both the insights of Dr. Gawande and their important perspectives for person-centered experience. She reinforces that in this day of increased focus on understanding patient’s expectations and patient-focused care, Dr. Gawande compels us to learn how to have the difficult conversations about what really matters. She closes the review with a compelling quote from the author, "I never expected that among the most meaningful experiences I’d have as a doctor— and, really, as a human being— would come from helping others deal with what medicine cannot do as well as what it can."Sue SuttonThe Beryl Institutearticlebook review: being mortal: illnessmedicine and what matters in the endMedicine (General)R5-920Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENPatient Experience Journal (2015)
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description	In her review of <em>Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End</em> written by Atul Gawande, MD, Sue Sutton shares both the insights of Dr. Gawande and their important perspectives for person-centered experience. She reinforces that in this day of increased focus on understanding patient’s expectations and patient-focused care, Dr. Gawande compels us to learn how to have the difficult conversations about what really matters. She closes the review with a compelling quote from the author, "I never expected that among the most meaningful experiences I’d have as a doctor— and, really, as a human being— would come from helping others deal with what medicine cannot do as well as what it can."
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Book Review: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

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