Dr. Atul Gawande on 'Being Mortal'

Atul Gawande
Dr. Atul Gawande
Courtesy of Fred Field 2009

Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the way doctors can improve both life and death. That's the focus of his latest best-selling book, "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End."

The Boston surgeon spoke in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2014 as part of the BBC's Reith Lecture Series on The Future of Medicine.

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