Friday Book Club – “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande

october, 2024

11oct1:00 pm2:00 pmFeaturedFriday Book Club - "Being Mortal" by Atul GawandeGunn Memorial Library1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Gunn Memorial Library, 5 Wykeham Road, Washington CT, 06794

Event Details

The Friday afternoon book club at the Gunn Memorial Library will delve into a thought-provoking read in October 2024: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them.

In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Here he examines its ultimate limitations and failures―in his own practices as well as others’―as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life―all the way to the very end.

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Time

(Friday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Gunn Memorial Library

5 Wykeham Road, Washington CT, 06794

Organizer

Gunn Memorial LibraryPhone: (860) 868-7586

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