BOOK REVIEW
BEING MORTAL:
MEDICINE AND WHAT
MATTERS IN THE END
Atul Gawande
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2014
Reviewed by
M. Saleem Seyal, MD, FACC, FACP
“I have been here. Now I am going there. Where? ... No, I won’t have it!”
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy 1886
T
hroughout medical school and graduate medical education, physicians are
taught about how to diagnose diseases
and trea ]Y[