You Can Stop Humming Now by Daniela Lamas

You Can Stop Humming Now by Daniela Lamas

For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology.

Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas is fascinated by a different story: what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies?

You Can Stop Humming Now, Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home, alive but not the same; and a young woman navigating an adulthood she never thought she'd live to see -- these moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health.

Riveting, gorgeously told, and deeply personal, You Can Stop Humming Now is a compassionate, uncompromising look at the choices and realities that many of us, and our families, may one day face.

"Gripping, soaring, inspiring."-Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

Daniela Lamas is a professor at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital. She went on to Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons to receive her MD after graduating from Harvard College, where she also finished her internship and residency. After that, she went back to Boston for her speciality fellowship. She has worked as a medical reporter for the Miami Herald and has been featured in the New York Times on numerous occasions. This is her debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9780316393171
ISBN 10	0316393177
Title	You Can Stop Humming Now
Author	Daniela Lamas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Spark
Year published	2018-03-27
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.