Atul Gawande - Being Mortal

When:
Tuesday, Sep 12, 2017 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA 02446

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Admission:
$20.00

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< 21, Date Idea, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, Sports & Active Life, University

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Brookline Booksmith presents surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, in conversation with novelist Jennifer Haigh.


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.

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