- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
When complications arise during Gawande’s father’s surgery, Gawande expresses his relief that he had a conversation about his father’s priorities prior to the surgery. As such, Gawande is able to make an informed decision about the surgery based on that conversation, highlighting the importance of being able to confront difficult topics before crises occur. Only then can people like Gawande’s father live out his final days and die in the way that he wishes. This is made even more evident after the surgery—because of Gawande’s decision, his father survives and he doesn’t lose any motor function, as they feared. Although…