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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Sharing the Journey is a compilation of hospice stores, written by patients, family members and hospice staff. These stories will surprise you with their humble humanity and humor, give you hope for the future, demonstrate admiration for those who so bravely faced the most difficult time of their lives, and will certainly warm your heart. Many of the stories were originally collected in memory of our patients and placed into a 'treasure box' which...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness. Using a variety of qualitative research methods, including participant-observation, interviews, and journal keeping, the book provides the reader with rich, multi-textured narratives. These narratives weave together emotions, physical symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family...
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"A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as an anesthesiologist and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her mother become a renowned anesthesiologist too. As...