Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Julius Wiedemann But now the emperor is

But now the emperor is on his deathbed

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and the United States against Japan

and acknowledging and accepting the darkness when it comes

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Julius Wiedemann But now the emperor isIn Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. 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