That good night : life and medicine in the eleventh hour
Puri, Sunita, 1979-2019
Books, Manuscripts
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.
Main title:
That good night : life and medicine in the eleventh hour / Sunita Puri.
Author:
Puri, Sunita, 1979-, author
Imprint:
London : Constable, 2019.
Collation:
xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781472131324 (hbk)
Dewey class:
610.92
LC class:
R154.P8675
Language:
English
Subject:
Puri, Sunita (MD)Puri, Sunita, 1979-Women physicians -- United States -- BiographyEast Indian American physicians -- BiographyEast Indian American women -- BiographyPalliative treatmentPhysician and patientMedicine -- Religious aspectsBiographyWomen physicians -- United StatesEast Indian American physiciansHealth and WellbeingHealth and Fitness
BRN:
2434992