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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 a surgeon 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 a young girl, Puri realized that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was nearly impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and faith. Puri spent her childhood in nurse's lounges waiting for her mother to exit the OR, and also in deep conversation with her parents about the role of faith in shaping a compassionate life.
As a young woman, Puri followed her mother into medicine. But as the years of her training passed, Puri began to question medicine's power. Were patients' lives being saved, or...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:45:58 +0200