Shankar’s Reviews > Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End > Status Update

“ I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.This experiment of making mortality a medical experience is just decades old. It is young. And the evidence is it is failing.”