You can stop humming now : a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between / Daniela Lamas.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 245 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316393171
- 0316393177
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 616.028 L217 | Available | 33111009185337 |
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 A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home,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.