Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. After experiencing the real world of healthcare as a 4th year medical student, take a step back and join us in reflection as we delve in to Dr. Gawande's book. Meet periodically with faculty to debrief and share experiences. Let's see where Dr. Gawande's book takes and if we can accept his challenge to have doctors not just ensure health and survival, but "to enable well-being." Forth-year elective only. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.