Being Mortal By Atul Gawande Chapter Summary

In Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, bestseller author Atul Gawande son of both parents who were doctors and he, himself is a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He addresses his issues from his profession’s ultimate arguing. He is the author of three bestselling books and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He chose to examine the old age and how nursing, medicine, and healthcare plays in a role in for aging people. He wrote the novel through interviewing and in-sight experiences of his own patients and his family member such as his father, grandfather. Being Mortal novel is an insight how healthcare and nursing plays a role as well as the medicine that …show more content…
then in another other developed countries. As Gawande stated in his book, “doctors everywhere become all to ready to offer false hopes, leading families to empty bank accounts, sell their seed crops, and take money from their children’s education for futile treatment” (192). No healthcare is willing to give you a free treatment at desperate times but rather let you deteriorate. In supporting to Gawande’s message, I believe that the healthcare is a hoax, deceiving you into treatments that you think might be a cure to your disease, but it is just a swindle to take your money. This often leads to death early, distanced from family and friends, waste of time and money, and treatments leading to side effects or next experimentation on you. Not just health care frames you but as well as nursing homes and the quality of living is not consider living. Healthcare and nursing homes should reconsider for better quality of treatments, care, and money …show more content…
I dwell upon my future how will I look like when death arrives. The fear I have is picturing myself as a skeletal figured buried deep underground of the tombstone. In fact, I will have 12 screws and 3 plates on my chin along with sponge texture piece on my nose. My mother was sick during my pregnancy. If the doctor had examined her carefully whether she was pregnant with me or not, she would have not took the pill to cure her sickness. That pill would have never caused my birth defect, Cleft Lip and Palate. I had undergone through multiple surgeries over the course of 21 years of my life. Of course the treatments were less expensive in India than in U.S. In fact there is no healthcare system in India as far as I know it is mostly paid out of our own pocket money and therefor is cheaper there than having surgeries in America. I had multiple surgeries that failed on me. One led to another and more money was spent to recover. Like Nelene Fox, she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. “Her insurer, Health Net, denied her request for coverage of the cost, arguing that it was an experimental treatment whose benefits were unproven and that it was therefore excluded under the terms of her policy” (175). Unlike Fox, my experimental was done in India. An artificial bone graft that hasn’t really proven drastic resulted was tested on me. The treatment failed and bits of artificial bones started