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“A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone’s lives.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“assisted living isn’t really built for the sake of older people so much as for the sake of their children.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“What were her biggest fears and concerns? What goals were most important to her? What trade-offs was she willing to make, and what ones was she not? Not everyone is able to answer such questions,”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End