Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End When you travel through a

When you travel through a new country

" - Betsy Bird

absorbing prose

New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon

raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End When you travel through aNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye opening research and