Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

7 reviews

electrickid's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This changed my brain chemistry, inspiring both my life and clinical practice. A really interesting, thought provoking, and delicately powerful read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Grief, and Dementia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Medical trauma

giannacolo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Death, Chronic illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Terminal illness

mothstrand's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement

brooklynchaise's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and perspective changing. It challenged me to think about mortality and the things that make life worth living, especially at the end. I will definitely recommend this book to others and reflect on its contents as I and my family grow older 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit

archer3's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Incredibly insightful and well-written. A thought-provoking work that everyone should read at least once. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Body horror, Blood, Cancer, Death, Excrement, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Dementia, and Grief

momo916's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Anyone with an elder in their life right now probably knows how fraught the experience of navigating end of life can be. Gowande alternates between history and narrative to paint a picture of how we find ourselves making choices for ourselves and for our loved ones that result in the protraction of pain and suffering leading up to death. The book discusses the challenges everyone involved faces, including doctors, patients, and the family members who are often forced to make the final call. If I have any complaints, it’s that the prescription for this societal ill is, essentially, "talking it out," which seems to be the same thing we hear in response to most societal ills and which also has yet to really solve anything. I would have liked to hear more about the role, if any, that health insurance companies and fear of litigation play regarding the choices doctors make around testing and operating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide