You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death,

You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between

"Gripping, soaring, inspiring."--Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

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?

In 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 A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home,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.
Country USA
Brand Little, Brown Spark
Manufacturer Little, Brown Spark
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-03-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780316393171

Country	USA
Brand	Little, Brown Spark
Manufacturer	Little, Brown Spark
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-03-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780316393171

You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between

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