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59: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

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The Importance of Being Subjective

In the movie Patch Adams, a medical student falls in love with this other medical student. He convinces everybody that is around him that the thing to do is to increase the quality of the patient's life. "I can totally see how Dr. Gawande deals with that nightmare," she says. 'If you treat the person, you win every time'

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