phronese rated Being Mortal: 5 stars

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The …
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The …
personally, very insightful!
Well written, but as this is a special and rare story, the book however fails to deliver an important messacu about life and death. Maybe it is my expectation, but I had high hopes, this book would be more meaningful to me.
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