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An Ordinary Day Just Shorter: A Meditation of a DeathWatcher
Paperback
Biographies GeneralChristian LivingDeath & Dying
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A cancer doctor loses his wife to the disease he treats.
You have asked the questions that keep you awake at night. What is the point of it all? Why do we suffer? How do we make peace with death when it circles closer, taking the people we love most? You have searched for honest answers, not clinical detachment or hollow platitudes, but the hard-won truths that only come from a life lived in the space between healing and loss.
An Ordinary Day Just Shorter: A Meditation of a DeathWatcher is the deeply personal reflection of Frank J. Brescia, MD, a medical oncologist with over fifty years spent caring for women with breast cancer. When his wife Jane died of the very disease he had dedicated his career to fighting, Dr. Brescia was forced to confront the collision of his professional world and his most devastating personal grief. Drawing on a lifetime of memories, from a Catholic boyhood in the Bronx to the foxholes of Vietnam, from the joy of fathering eight children to the loneliness of widowhood and the grace of love renewed, he offers a meditation on mortality, purpose, faith, and what it truly means to touch another human being in pain.
Inside these pages, you will discover:
- A physician's unflinching reckoning with the limits of medicine, war, and belief
- Hard-earned wisdom on love, loss, and the priorities that define a meaningful life
- A compassionate companion for anyone facing grief, illness, or the universal mystery of why we are here
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