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Living with Mortality: Life Goes On

By Malin Dollinger, Bernard Dubrow

Understanding the patterns of reaction to a prolonged illness with perhaps years of remission and a significant chance of being cured will help you put your emotional survival in focus while your doctor concentrates on your physical survival.

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No Risky Chances: The Conversation that Matters Most.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in anatomy class in my first term, our textbooks contained almost nothing about aging or frailty or dying.

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Atul Gawande
2014
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