"“This is a book about the modern experience of mortality about what it’s like to be creatures who age and die, how medicine has changed the experience and how it hasn’t, where our ideas about how to deal with our finitude have got the reality wrong. As I pass a decade in surgical practice and become middle aged myself, I find that neither I nor my patients find our current state tolerable. But I have also found it unclear what the answers should be, or even whether any adequate ones are possible. I have the writer’s and scientist’s faith, however, that by pulling back the veil and peering in close, a person can make sense of what is most confusing or strange or disturbing.” ― Atul Gawande, (p9, 'Introduction', 'Being Mortal', Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846685828)"

— being mortal by Atul Gawande (Page 9)