Dr. Atul Gawande on 'Being Mortal'
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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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