We’re good at addressing specific, individual problems: col… - Atul Gawande

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We’re good at addressing specific, individual problems: colon cancer, high blood pressure, arthritic knees. Give us a disease, and we can do something about it. But give us an elderly woman with high blood pressure, arthritic knees, and various other ailments besides — an elderly woman at risk of losing the life she enjoys — and we hardly know what to do and often only make matters worse.

Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End · October 7, 2014 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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