Kate’s Reviews > Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End > Status Update
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Ch 3, “Dependence,” on the history of nursing homes: “We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals - from freeing up hospital beds to taking the burden off families’ hands to coping with poverty among the elderly - but never the goal that matters to the people who reside in them: how to make life worth living when we’re weak and frail and can’t fend for ourselves anymore.”
— Jul 06, 2026 07:54PM
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Kate
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“On average…the geriatric services cost the hospital $1,350 more per person than the savings they produced, and Medicare…does not cover that cost. It’s a strange double standard. No one insists that a $25,000 pacemaker or coronary-artery stent save money for insurers. It just has to maybe do people some good.”
— Jul 05, 2026 12:56PM
