| You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between Contributor(s): Lamas, Daniela (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316393177 ISBN-13: 9780316393171 Publisher: Little, Brown Spark OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Critical Care - Medical | Ethics - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 174.296 |
| LCCN: 2017947289 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas is fascinated by a different story: what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies? You Can Stop Humming Now, Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home, alive but not the same; and a young woman navigating an adulthood she never thought she'd live to see -- these moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health. Riveting, gorgeously told, and deeply personal, You Can Stop Humming Now is a compassionate, uncompromising look at the choices and realities that many of us, and our families, may one day face. "Gripping, soaring, inspiring."-Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal |