That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour (Record no. 297116)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781472131331
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 610.92 PUR-G
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sunita Puri
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Constable
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 301 p. ; 24 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Puri, Sunita -- (MD) Women physicians -- United States -- Biography. East Indian American physicians -- Biography.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 28/06/2019 1 610.92 PUR-G DCB3763 12/07/2019 12/07/2019 28/06/2019 Book