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You Can Stop Humming Now
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between | Daniela Lamas
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A critical care doctor's breathtaking stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicine 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? In 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 A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home,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.
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Maybe I should stop reading medical novels and actually go to medschool 🤔. Next on my Medical books reads: You Can Stop Humming Now. GOT IT ON SALE! Recommended Medical books : When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi; Fragile Lives, Professor Stephen Westaby; This Is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay.