That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
By: Sunita Puri
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be…
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
By: Katy Butler
4.12
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
Knocking on Heaven's Door is a visionary map through the labyrinth of a broken and morally adrift m… read more
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"To do more, is not necessarily to do better."-Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
"When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine lo…"-Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
"When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what's left behind do not change,' wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend sufferi…"-Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
3. All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And… read more
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4. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
By: Nina Riggs
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina… read more
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5. Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
By: None
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Being Mortaland Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framewo… read more
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6. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
By: Victoria Sweet
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hot… read more
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7. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
By: Pauline W. Chen
3.84
Format: 95 pages,
A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerfu… read more
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8. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
9. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
By: Hadley Vlahos
4.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more
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10. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
11. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
By: Henry Marsh
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more
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12. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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13. What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love
By: Laurel Braitman
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks L… read more
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14. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
By: Julie Yip-Williams
4.10
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story… read more
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"Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"I think God is beyond what my little, limited, human brain can fathom. But, perhaps, something my limitless soul can just being to grasp in my moments of utmost clarity."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
"It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life."-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
15. Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die
By: Blair Bigham
4.29
Format: 304 pages, None
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In Death Interrupted , ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experienc… read more
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16. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
By: Sunita Puri
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be… read more
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17. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e… read more
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"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels f…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"Indeed, these two contradictory extremes that medicine has tended to vacillate between: either women's reproductive functions are pathologized as innately abnormal - in which case any symptoms they b…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
18. Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
By: Victoria Sweet
4.20
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, by the award-winning author of God's… read more
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19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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20. Old Girls Behaving Badly
By: Kate Galley
4.21
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
A delightfully heartwarming and funny story that proves it's never too late to change the habits of… read more
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21. You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
By: Daniela Lamas
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what l… read more
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