The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
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Rated 5 starsMessage of hope in the human spirit
No small number of my loved ones have required the care of hematologists -- mother-in-law, nephew, two aunts, father, husband. I worked closely with a group of hematologists for several years and had a close friend in that branch of medicine. How, I always wondered, do they maintain the emotional and spiritual resources needed to continue in this challenging line of work? Dr. Jerome Groopman addresses that very question in...
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Rated 5 starsThe most touching book on relationships between a good doctor and his patients...
I don't remember why or where I bought this book. I think it came highly recommended to me, as I have worked in HIV research and bioethics for the disabled for years, not as a job, but because it is what I care about. I think I accidently put this book up to sell, thinking it was another book on these same issues I had read years ago. When I got it out to send to another reader, I realized I hadn't read it. I can read quite...
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Rated 5 starsDetailed tales of a good clinician
This book presents excellent accounts of a doctor who, above all else, is a good clinician. The accounts contain personal discussion, interesting patients, hard science, and lessons about both medicine and life. Admittedly, this last phrase, "lessons about both medicine and life" sounds cliche but as an obviously empathetic, observant and disciplined clinician, Groopman is well prepared to talk about the serious,universal...
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Rated 5 starsEight powerful stories.
Jerome Groopman is familiar to many by now as a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, where at least one of the essays in the current book first appeared. Besides being a prolific writer, he also finds time in his day to be the Recanati Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a leading researcher on cancer and AIDS. One wonders how...
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Rated 5 starsA doctor's psalm. <p>
All great literature teaches that death is the mother of beauty, that human eloquence begins with the understanding of mortality. How better to know ourselves, the limits of our endurance, and the greatness of our spirit than at the brink? Jerome Groopman, a cancer and AIDS specialist, tends to dying or seriously ill people every day. His book (the title is from Psalm 39) takes readers into the lives and (sometimes) deaths...
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