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You can stop humming now : a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between / Daniela Lamas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 245 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316393171
  • 0316393177
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
You can stop humming now -- Ten percent -- Life on battery -- Nightmares after the ICU -- Emergence -- Where the bridge ends -- Networking for a kidney -- An unexpected adulthood -- How it begins.
Summary: "A critical care doctor's riveting stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicine"--Jacket flap.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 616.028 L217 Available 33111009185337
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home,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

"A critical care doctor's riveting stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicine"--Jacket flap.

You can stop humming now -- Ten percent -- Life on battery -- Nightmares after the ICU -- Emergence -- Where the bridge ends -- Networking for a kidney -- An unexpected adulthood -- How it begins.

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