Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande: Being Mortal 90-luvun alussa nuori lääkäri New Yorkista, Bill Thomas aloitti uudessa johtajan pestissä vanhainkodissa, jossa noin puolet asukkaista oli fyysisesti rajoittuneita, 4/5…

”In the end, people don’t view their life as merely the average of all of its moments – which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has some sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens.”