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59: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

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The Importance of Individualism

Bill Thomas was a homesteader who started working at a nursing home because of the regular day hours. He sought to fix what he considered the three plagues of nursing homes, boredom, loneliness, and helplessness. The drug costs for the people who were living there fell 38%. And the death rate fell 15%.

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