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The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End

The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End

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Medical ReferenceDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 014026972X
ISBN13: 9780140269727
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.14 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
With The Measure of Our Days, Dr. Jerome Groopman established himself as an eloquent new voice in the literature of medicine. In these eight moving portraits, he offers us a compelling look at what is to be learned when life itself can no longer be taken for granted.

These stories are diverse--from Kirk, an aggressive venture capitalist determined to play the odds with controversial chemotherapy treatments; to Elizabeth, an imperious dowager humbled by a rare blood disease; to Elliott, who triumphs over leukemia and creates for himself a definition of success--but each, in the words of Maggie Scarf, transmute the misery of terrible suffering into a marvelous celebration of the sweetness of human life. Far from medical case studies, these are spiritual journeys of questioning and self-awareness, embarked on by the physician as well as the patient.

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