Quotes by Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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People seemed to have two different selves—an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments—which, after all, is mostly nothing mu — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
You don’t have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the pe — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people wit — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Technological society has forgotten what scholars call the 'dying role' and its importance to people as life approaches — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally ill patien — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles o — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence wi — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
When our time is limited and we are uncertain about how best to serve our priorities, we are forced to deal with the fac — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
[We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And w — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
At least two kinds of courage are required in aging and sickness. The first is the courage to confront the reality of mo — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you. — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task. Death i — Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End