Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

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

4 reviews

recorderkfk's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I cried a little at the end reading this. I'm 29 and have as of now, seen only two significant deaths in my life. Learning about the choices my parents went through for both of their fathers was no comparison at all to how thoroughly Atul Gawande talks about aging and dying in this book. 

It's the type of book that I think everyone should read, when they're in a good frame of mind to be both reflective analytical at how aging just suddenly becomes dying and the questions we face at the end of our lives, makes life worth living, what will really matter to us in the end. The book is full of a lot of patients stories making it accessible and less clinical. Highly recommend this book, and Gandhi's other book of the checklist manifesto.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent and Excrement

Minor: Mental illness and Drug use

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

hayleyvem's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

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