Description
In The Measure of Our Days Dr. Groopman recounts the stories of extraordinary people under the extreme circumstances of life-threatening illness. These true-life dramas explore the changes in character that occur when one's mortality is brought into sharp focus. Some of the patients survive and others succumb, but all teach us lessons about what is substantial in life.
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Reviews:
- "As simple and extraordinary as the murmur of
the human heart...Groopman effectively commingles science and the sacred."
-The Boston Globe - "These clinical narratives, powerfully rendered,
become moral fables--several of them suggestive and telling enough to belong
in the company of Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' or 'Master and the
Man.'"
-The Washington Post Book World - "Groopman writes...eloquently, even passionately,
of his struggles in the face of complex choices and emotions...There is much
heart--and wisdom--in the stories he shares here."
-San Fransisco Sunday Examiner-Chronicle - "Groopman writes beautifully, tenderly, truthfully
of his patients, and of his complex, delicate relationships with them."
-Oliver Sacks, M.D. - "Reading The Measure of Our Days leaves
one grateful for the existence of physicians like Dr. Groopman and books like
this one."
-Rabbi Harold S. Kushner