A review by kaulhilo
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

4.0

this might be the hardest book i’ve ever had to read, for medical reasons, but also for general, life reasons. i didn’t fully understand palliative care and geriatrics, or the evolution and devolution of nursing homes, or the brutality of medicine, before this book; so for that i’m glad to have read it, but my god, did it /have/ to trigger 30,000 anxiety attacks every 2 chapters.