Dr. Atul Gawande in a reflective moment.
In Dr. Atul Gawande’s latest book “Being Mortal” the best-selling author takes on the hardest challenge we face, the end of life.
“A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone’s lives,” wrote Atul Gawande in Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
A free screening and discussion of the PBS film Being Mortal will be held at the lower level of the Sawtooth Mountain Clinic on Thursday, October 27 from 4-6 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.
The film explores the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness and their relationships with the physicians who treat them.
Come see the film and discuss what matters most when facing difficult treatment decisions and how to have those conversations ahead of a medical crisis. Pastor Kris Garey, Dr. Sandy Stover and Care Coordinator Marnie Hovland will be on hand to help with the discussion.
“You may not control life’s circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them,” wrote Gawande.
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