Being mortal
Alistair Heslop and Elizabeth Redfern consider a moving exploration of illness and death
Anyone who has a parent, or hopefully two, who are, let us say, getting on a bit, or are themselves in their later years, should find Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, written by American doctor Atul Gawande, compulsory reading.
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