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Medicine's job is to enable well-being, not only to ensure health and survival
Drawn from what Atul Gawande said
What Atul Gawande actually said
- Atul Gawande American surgeon, writer and public health researcher
We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.
Where this was said
↗Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Metropolitan Books, 2014)archive.org
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