Ser mortal : la medicina y lo que importa al final / Atul Gawande ; traducción de Alejandro Pradera.
Por: Gawande, Atul [author.]
Colaborador(es): Pradera, Alejandro [translator.]
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TextoIdioma: Español Lenguaje original: Inglés Editor: Barcelona : Galaxia Gutenberg, [2015]Descripción: 1 online resourceTipo de contenido: text Tipo de medio: computer Tipo de portador: online resourceISBN: 9788416252671; 841625267XTítulos uniformes: Being mortal. Spanish (Pradera) Tema(s): Terminal care | Critical care medicine | Death -- Psychological aspects | Terminally ill -- Psychology | Aging -- Physiological aspects | Quality of lifeGénero/Forma: Electronic books.Formatos físicos adicionales: Print version:: Ser mortal.Clasificación CDD: 362.175 Clasificación LoC:R726.8 ebookRecursos en línea: Digitalia Hispánica Resumen: Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
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