Philosophical
What if medicine's biggest failure isn't death?
Doctors are trained to fix problems. Keep people alive. But Gawande noticed something troubling: in the focus on extending life, medicine often forgets to ask what makes life worth living in the first place.
Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.— Atul Gawande
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The thinker
Surgeon & Public Health Thinker
Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and professor at Harvard who explores how medicine succeeds and fails in real human terms.
Based on Atul Gawande: Being Mortal — Talks at Google, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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