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

I was wondering what infection the author would get from ingesting the Ganges River water when he said that he got giardia.

family members disagree with how much morphine to give to the sr Dr. Gawande.

near end of chpt 8, the senior Dr.Gawande recommends that the author try out the newly installed bidet function of the toilet.

A neurosurgeon colleague has terrible bedside manners.

chpt 10- the dreadful revelation about the senior Dr. Gawande' health condition. Author & his father are both surgeons.

Early chpt 5- hilarious acct of Dr. Bill Thomas convincing a SNF to try having dogs, cats, birds to engage pts & staff.

2nd rdg for W3 book club. many of us are managing grief.