Gawande’s mother is a doctor who immigrated from India. She struggles to come to terms with Gawande’s father’s impending death, but she (along with Gawande) helps him assess his priorities in the final phase of his life and work with doctors and nurses to enable him to achieve those goals.
Gawande’s Mother Quotes in Being Mortal
The Being Mortal quotes below are all either spoken by Gawande’s Mother or refer to Gawande’s Mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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I realized then that my father had already told us what to do, just as Susan Block’s father had. My dad was more afraid of becoming quadriplegic than of dying. I therefore asked Benzel which posed the greater risk of his becoming quadriplegic in the next couple months: stopping or proceeding? Stopping, he said. We told him to proceed.
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Gawande’s Mother Quotes in Being Mortal
The Being Mortal quotes below are all either spoken by Gawande’s Mother or refer to Gawande’s Mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
I realized then that my father had already told us what to do, just as Susan Block’s father had. My dad was more afraid of becoming quadriplegic than of dying. I therefore asked Benzel which posed the greater risk of his becoming quadriplegic in the next couple months: stopping or proceeding? Stopping, he said. We told him to proceed.
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