New York Times
Friday, March 23, 2007"In his final chapter Dr. Groopman discusses two terminally ill cancer patients for whom radically different courses of treatment were recommended, based less on the medical facts than on the patients’ philosophy of life. Here his general impatience with numbers, technology and rigid conceptual schemes in medical decision-making comes to the fore, as he describes the efforts of two doctors to read the characters of their patients and to help them make decisions that they can live with, and ultimately die with. This is medicine at its best, 'a mix of science and soul.'"
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