Being Mortal Tapa dura - 2014

Praise for Atul Gawande:

   • "It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking." --Maclolm Gladwell 

   • "[Gawande's book] honestly changed the way I think about the world. It is the best book I've read in ages." --Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics 

   • "Atul Gawande is not only adding to the small shelf of books by doctors that every layman should read. He's using medicine to help anyone who hopes to do anything better." --Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball 

   • "Gawande's prose, much like the scalpel he wields, is precise, daring, but never reckless. . . . Much like reading George Orwell, the reader emerges entertained, enlightened, transformed and immensely satisfied." --Abraham Verghese 

   • "None surpass Gawande in the ability to create a sense of immediacy, in his power to conjure the reality of the ward, the thrill of the moment-by-moment medical or surgical drama." --The New York Times Book Review