Atul Gawande Quotes

Introduction 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 My First Term, That Was Solely A Way To Learn About Human Anatomy. Our Textbooks Had Almost Nothing On Aging Or Frailty Or Dying. How The Process Unfolds, How People Experience The End Of Their Lives, And How It Affects Those Around Them Seemed Beside The Point. The Way We Saw It, And The Way Our Professors Saw It, The Purpose Of Medical Schooling Was To Teach How To Save Lives, Not How To Tend To Their Demise. The One Time I Remember Discussing Mortality Was During An Hour We Spent On The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy's Classic Novella.

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