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‘Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end’ is a new book by the best-selling US surgeon and author Atul Gwande. Death, dying or being mortal is not a favourite topic of doctors. Although this book will not change your whole life, it could very well improve how it ends. Listen to a short synopsis of ‘Being Mortal’ – Gwande talks to Mosiac editor (YouTube Link) . Five key questions at the end of life recommended by Gawande.
The book and the series of lectures by Atul Gwande on the Future of Medicine in UK (Reath Lectures BBC) have generated wide range of discussions around death and dying. One article from Vox is about how ‘Americans refusal to talk about death’
A related topic of ‘Breaking bad news’ in Mosaic describes how doctors learn and cope with telling patients about serious illness or dying.
Richard Smith’s blog ‘Dying of cancer is the best death’ generated discussion across the globe. One was‘How to achieve a good death’. Smith replied further explaining his position regarding the ‘death debate’. Continuing the discussion on death he poses another question ‘Would you like to die at 75 or 150?
Ranjana Srivastava writes on the ‘Death of a Colleague’ in her NEJM column which will make us think of situations that are difficult to come to terms with.
On learning of his terminal cancer, Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology and author of many books including ‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’ has written this insightful piece in NYT
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