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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
By Puri, Sunita
- ISBN
- 9780735223318 9780735223332
- Publisher
- Viking
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Starred Review on February 1, 2019 | Science and Technology
Doctors are supposed to preserve and prolong life, writes Puri (Keck Hosp., Norris Cancer Ctr., Univ. of Southern California), but what if a patient no longer wants to continuing living in pain? In this moving memoir, the author intertwines her parents' story of emigrating from India to the United States with her own journey of being a young doctor in a young medical specialty—palliative medicine, or quality of life for those with seriou...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
