You can stop humming now : a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between
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You can stop humming now : a doctor's stories of life, death, and in between
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Edition:
First Edition.
Physical Description:
245 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:
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? In 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 A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home,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.
Contents:
Introduction--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--Afterword.
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Publication Info:
New York : Little Brown & Company, 2018.
Subject:
Medical care |
Medical care -- Technological innovations. |
Medicine -- Philosophy |
Delivery of health care |
Delivery of medical care |
Health care |
Health care delivery |
Health services |
Healthcare |
Medical and health care industry |
Medical services |
Personal health services |
SAILS ISBN:
9780316393171