Marcia Angell's Review of Being Mortal

Karen Gunderscheimer, who is auditing our class, read a recent review of Gawande’s Being Mortal by Marcia Angell in the New York Review of Books.  Karen writes: “This [review] is well worth reading: lucid writing, beautifully developed, and also compelling. Angell is both author and physician.  She was the Executive Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1988 – 2000.  Her very personal experiences with hospice are revelatory, her view on end of life issues is somewhat at odds with current thinking.

Her review: “A Better Way Out” is available free full text online.

Her husband’s Arnold “Bud” Relman’s essay entitled “On Breaking One’s Neck” is a companion piece. It also appeared in The New York Review of Books.

The Relman's were the ultimate "power couple" of American medicine.

The Relmans in Happier Days

Angel and Relman after Breaking His Neck