INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLERFrom surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine--and lives.Being Mortal looks at the way modern medicine has changed the experience of dying, what the implications of this change are for each of us, and what we would need to do to change a system that knows a lot about prolonging life but little about tending to death.     At the heart of this book is something larger and more