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From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life – A Book Review

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | October 21, 2024

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…

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Thriving with Chronic Illness – A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | January 7, 2023
A view of the sea from a rocky shore

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…

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | January 18, 2022 | 1
Sunlight passing through the trees in winter

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…

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Bewilderment – a novel by the author of The Overstory

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | December 1, 2021
Two books authored by Richard Powers

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…

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | January 8, 2018
The Power of Habit book cover

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…

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“Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | March 3, 2017

“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”…

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The 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

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | December 10, 2016
The Death of Cancer book cover

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…

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CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? By Roz Chast – a book review

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | February 10, 2016
A memoir book cover

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…

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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | April 17, 2015
A stack of books

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,…

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The Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage and Love by Nell Lake

By Lady Docs Corner Cafe | September 27, 2014

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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