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Title: The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness by Jerome Groopman ISBN: 0-14-026972-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Compassion of a physician
Comment: This book genuinely portrays the dynamic aspect of a patient-doctor relationship. Jerome Groopman is an extraordinary writer and physician who is able to touch the hearts of his patients. Through his eight powerful and compelling stories, he is able to give the reader insight and capture the life lessons learned from these terminally ill patients.
Dr. Groopman leads us through the lives of eight patients with a terminal illness. The book starts with Kirk, an aggressive businessman who is afflicted with kidney cancer and is determined to fight his battle with a new chemotherapy treatment only to realize that his life has been empty. Groopman then moves on to describe a Catholic boy who underwent successful therapy from leukemia, but died of AIDS contracted from a blood transfusion. Another patient, a research fellow in Groopman's own research laboratory has AIDS from a blood transfusion because he was a hemophiliac. My favorite story is Cindy, a single woman with AIDS who boldly fights with Groopman over her fervent desire to adopt a child. Each tragic account illuminates the empathy and compassion Dr. Groopman has toward his patients. He would hug them, hold their hand, listen to them, and share their tears.
The Measure of Our Days is a powerful book and the reader gains and understanding of the frailty of human life. The dialogue between Dr. Groopman and his patients is compelling. By reading this book, we can appreciate and value our own lives and the life lessons learned from these terminally ill patients. Definitely a good book, especially for people who are interested in pursuing a career in medicine.
Rating: 5
Summary: Detailed tales of a good clinician
Comment: This book presents excellent accounts of a doctor who, above all else, is a good clinician. The accounts contain personal discussion, interesting patients, hard science, and lessons about both medicine and life. Admittedly, this last phrase, "lessons about both medicine and life" sounds cliche but as an obviously empathetic, observant and disciplined clinician, Groopman is well prepared to talk about the serious,universal issues that often arise in his specific line of work.
Though he is a superspecialist, a nice aspect of this book is that Groopman is very objective about medicine overall. The technology he spends works on in lab is not at all treated as a panacea. Simultaneously, he does not shun or wholly embrace alternative medicine. It is simply another example of why he is a good clinician, qualifying the book further.
An excellent, very fast read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Somewhat engaging but mostly pretentious
Comment: Although the eight patients profiled in this slim volume have interesting stories to tell, their experiences are diluted in the telling. Jerome Groopman, incongruously, tries to further the Cult of the Physician: Doctors are supermen, they can do no wrong. While reading about these patients' experiences, you start to notice that Groopman appears to be the most wonderful person in the entire world. He's a professor at a prestigious medical school, with his own laboratory and staff; he maintains a full clinical schedule; he writes for the New York Times, New Yorker, and New Republic; he's an attentive family man with lots of friends. But, lo and behold, he also has time to take a deep, personal interest in each patient that comes his way. He sits with them for hours at a time, he goes to their homes to check on their progress, he visits them in foreign countries after attending medical conferences, he always returns phone calls. More importantly, he always knows what he's doing, he always has something good and interesting to offer his patients. Groopman essentially updates the old model of the physician-patient relationship, where the eminent physician dictates a wise and enlightened course of treatment for a supplicatory patient.
In the end, his self-presentation defies belief, and coats the otherwise positive and amazing aspects of the stories he tells with a glib patina.
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Title: The Anatomy of Hope : How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by JEROME GROOPMAN ISBN: 0375506381 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Jerome, M.D. Groopman ISBN: 0140298622 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End by Jerome Groopman ISBN: 0670875708 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande ISBN: 0312421702 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology by Robert Coles, Randy Testa, Joseph D'Donnell ISBN: 1565847296 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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