Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
By Atul Gawande | 11/18/2010 | The New Yorker
“….Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left….”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?printable=true
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