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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sunita PuriPublish date:2020-03-03Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780735223325ISBN-10:735223327UPC:9780735223325Book Category:Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, MedicalBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, Personal Memoirs, Terminal CareSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC1X9XQ8H7
"A profound exploration of what it means for all of us to live--and to die--with dignity and purpose." --People

"Visceral and lyrical." --The Atlantic

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between days spent waiting for her mother, an anesthesiologist, to exit the OR, and evenings spent in conversation with her parents about their faith, Puri witnessed the tension between medicine's impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life's temporality. And it was that tension that eventually drew Puri, a passionate but unsatisfied medical student, to palliative medicine--a new specialty attempting to translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care.

Interweaving evocative stories of Puri's family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780735223325ISBN-10:735223327UPC:9780735223325Book Category:Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, MedicalBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, Personal Memoirs, Terminal CareSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC1X9XQ8H7
Sunita Puri is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California, and medical director of palliative medicine at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center. She has published essays in The New York Times, Slate, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and JAMA-Internal Medicine. She lives in Los Angeles.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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