la medicina y lo que importa al final Gawande, Atul creator author. Pradera, Alejandro translator. text Electronic books. sp 2015 monographic spa eng 1 online resource. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Atul Gawande ; traducción de Alejandro Pradera. Terminal care Critical care medicine Death Psychological aspects Terminally ill Psychology Aging Physiological aspects Quality of life R726.8 ebook 362.175 Gawande, Atul. Gawande, Atul. Barcelona : Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015 1a ed. 9788416252671 841625267X https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/37386/ https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/37386/ DGITA 161214 DIGXIAGT101 eng