One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient - Hardcover

Biro, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375407154 ISBN 13: 9780375407154

Publisher: Pantheon, 2000

Synopsis

A doctor's extraordinary account -- both harrowing and inspiring -- of his battle with a life-threatening illness.

At thirty-one, David Biro had everything going for him when he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease. As he charts his journey from doctor to patient, from professor of dermatology to high-interest medical oddity, Biro renders accessible and unforgettable one of the most medically advanced and seemingly miraculous procedures in modern medicine: a bone marrow transplant. And in writing about his own fears and confusions, setbacks and triumphs, he taps into the hope and anxiety we all experience when confronted with a medical world that seems to grow both more technologically sophisticated and less compassionate with each day.

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's classic A Leg to Stand On, One Hundred Days is a searing but ultimately optimistic meditation on illness, medicine, family, and fate.

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From the Back Cover

"Extraordinary. Fate gave serious pause to the young physician who wrote this powerfully affecting and instructive book -- and, too, in a sense, fate gave us what happened: a writer's thoughtful and stirring response to an experience that nurtured his expressive life even as it seriously threatened his future. Surely every medical student will want to make this book's acquaintance -- and so, too, the rest of us mortals."
-- Robert Coles, author of The Spiritual Life of Children

"A splendidly written, thoughtful, and honest medical adventure story. As an exploration of what uncertainty in medicine means to patients and doctors, there is nothing better."
-- David J. Rothman, author of Strangers at the Bedside

"Lean, taut, suspenseful...One Hundred Days is a searing portrayal of the human experience in this contemporary era of high-tech medicine. You will be deeply informed about the body's response to disease as well as inspired by the possibility of lucidity, humor, and courage in the face of death."
-- Irvin Yalom, author of Momma and the Meaning of Life

About the Author

David Biro was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia and Oxford Universities. He teaches dermatology at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center and practices in Brooklyn. He has written previously about his illness in the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375407154
• ISBN 13: 9780375407154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304