
That Good Night
Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
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Narrated by:
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Soneela Nankani
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Sunita Puri
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By:
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Sunita Puri
“A profound exploration of what it means for all of us to live - and to die - with dignity and purpose.” (People)
“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 listeners with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us.
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Critic reviews
"Visceral and lyrical.... In a high-tech world, [Puri’s] specialty is not cures, but questions - about pain, about fraught prospects, about what ‘miracle’ might really mean. Her tool is language, verbal and physical. Wielding carefully measured words, can she guide but not presume to dictate? Heeding the body’s signals, not just beeping monitors, can she distinguish between a fixable malady and impending death? Puri the doctor knows that masterful control isn’t the point. For Puri the writer, her prose proves that it is.” (The Atlantic)
“A beautiful, lyrical narrative that provides great insight on living more fully.” (Forbes)
"The most powerful tools in her practice of palliative care are not scalpels or syringes: They are words. In a book full of both sadness and enlightenment, Puri's compassion and honesty shine." (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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