Cressida Connolly

Care for the dying needs more imagination – and less hospitalisation

A review of Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End. This is that rare thing: a truly important book

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  • Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

    Atul Gawande

    Profile Books/Wellcome Collection, pp. 288

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