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That Good Night

By Sunita Puri

That Good Night

By Sunita Puri

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"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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2020-03-03
Publication Date:
2020-03-03
Publisher:
Transworld
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0735223327
ISBN13:
9780735223325
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
269 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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