Reviews tagging 'Death'

Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

43 reviews

distractible's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

dylpicklez's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

mothstrand's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement

kjbreads's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

fiadhnd's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Being Mortal | Atul Gawande | Standalone | Nonfiction/Memoir | Audiobook | Dr Atul Gawande discusses elderly care and end of life care and reflects on death and dying. | Content Warning (CW) and Trigger Warnings (TW)

Spoiler

extensive medical scenes, illness, end of life care, death

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death

thewileyseven's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Extraordinary and essential. Spiritually, a beginning to the conversations of how acceptance and commitment theory can be applied to end-of-life care. I am positive I will be referring to this book regularly throughout the rest of my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Suicide

ca517's review against another edition

emotional informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

milliemillz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, and Cancer

isabellew6's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Dementia

Minor: Suicide

ulviyyask's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Death, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Cancer