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“Visceral and lyrical.” —The Atlantic
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between days spent waiting for her mother, an anesthesiologist, to exit the OR, and evenings spent in conversation with her parents about their faith, Puri witnessed the tension between medicine's impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life's temporality. And it was that tension that eventually drew Puri, a passionate but unsatisfied medical student, to palliative medicine—a new specialty attempting to translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care.
Interweaving evocative stories of Puri's family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us.
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Release date
March 5, 2019 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781984842695
- File size: 379154 KB
- Duration: 13:09:54
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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After Sunita Puri reads her author's note in a warm, thoughtful tone, Soneela Nankani narrates the remainder of this audiobook with reverence for the author's spiritual and humane perspectives. The daughter of an Indian physician, Sunita Puri also went into medicine but found that its focus on the mechanics of saving lives did not address the quality-of-life choices that people faced when confronting catastrophic or terminal illness. In a work that is part memoir, part spiritual exploration, she describes how she began seeing such life-changing illnesses as spiritual and social challenges--a process she could help patients with by eliciting their preferences and facilitating spiritual considerations. In addition to her pleasing tone and interpretive clarity, Nankani performs with flawless fidelity to the underlying truths in this extraordinary work. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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