Summary: Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEI

Gawande, Atul

Summary: Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 GAW

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.17 GAW

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Contents: From the sun -- Swim & sleep (Like a shark) -- So good at being in trouble -- One at a time -- The opposite of afternoon -- No need for a leader -- Monki -- Dawn -- Faded in the morning -- Secret xtians.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jagjaguwar 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK UNK

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Contents: Ffunny ffrends -- Bicycle -- Thought ballune -- Jello and juggernauts -- How can you luv me -- Nerve damage! -- Little blu house -- Strangers are strange -- Boy witch.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK UNK