Posts Tagged ‘book review’
From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life – A Book Review
Americans are known for being hard working. We value highly productive employees and are proud to work into our 70s or 80s. My father-in-law, an infectious disease specialist, virologist and…
Read MoreThriving with Chronic Illness – A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald
As a physician who took care of people with debilitating chronic illnesses, I was often inspired by their determination to not let their illness define their lives. I think that’s…
Read MoreWintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
We were in the middle of last year’s long covid winter when I heard Katherine May interviewed on NPR and I became intrigued enough to read her book, which I…
Read MoreBewilderment – a novel by the author of The Overstory
Life is as vast and endless and ultimately unknowable as the universe, or the human brain and body with its cells and microbiome and unfathomable consciousness. It is embodied by…
Read MoreThe Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
One of the jobs of a practicing internist is to help patients improving health through lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and sleep. This can be quite challenging for me, so…
Read More“Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance
“Hillbilly Elegy” has been on the New York Times bestseller list for weeks. The author is a 31 year old Yale law school graduate who grew up in “Rust Belt”…
Read MoreThe Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer is Winnable–and How We Can Get There By Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. M.D
The first book review I wrote for this website focused on The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee. I absolutely loved that book. Critics agreed, since it won the 2011…
Read MoreCAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? By Roz Chast – a book review
Are your parents aging? Are you trying to attend to their needs, perhaps to their medical crises, while working and raising children? Or, are you wondering what will happen when…
Read MoreBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
A few years ago, I read a newspaper article about a 65 year old physician who died climbing Mt. Everest. My first reaction was “how wonderful”, not THAT he died,…
Read MoreThe Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage and Love by Nell Lake
The unsung heroes of our society often labor without recognition, and outsiders may wonder how they cope. This book chronicles the grief process of a small group of caregivers who find…
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