"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan Books, New York, 2014. 282 pages. $26.Society is slow to change. We've learned how to treat diseases and conditions that, in the past, killed us well before our hair turned gray. But now that we know what to do, we don't know when to stop doing it. Medical solutions are not always the best solutions. And yet "Fix it" remains the mantra, even when fixing it threatens great risk to quality of life.Boston [...]
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