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We are a group of TVIH members who love and enjoy books.  We read both fiction and nonfiction.  Books are selected as a joint decision by the group membership.  Our discussions are always stimulating and lively.  We enthusiastically invite you to join our group.

January's book is "Being Mortal: by Atul Gawande""
This discussion will be led by ~ Karol

From Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine – and lives. 
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. And families go along with all of it.

Zoom link will be provided upon registration.