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Podcast: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Episode: What Makes Life Worth Living? Atul Gawande on Mortality, Medicine, and Meaning
Description: In this episode, Kate speaks with surgeon, writer, and public health leader Dr. Atul Gawande about the deeply human questions that surface when medicine meets its limits. What does it mean to be a good doctor when a cure isnât possible? What do people really mean when they say they want âquality of lifeâ? Together, they talk about caregiving, end-of-life decisions, and how the most honest conversations in healthcare beginânot with answersâbut with better questions. For anyone living with chronic illness, caring for someone they love, or wondering what it means to live a goo...