You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death and in Between

Dr. Daniela J. Lamas

ISBN 10: 0349412774 / ISBN 13: 9780349412771

Published by Little, Brown Book Group, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death and in Between
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349412774
• ISBN 13: 9780349412771
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 376 grams

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Synopsis

A critical care doctor's breathtaking stories about what it means to be saved by modern medicine

Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas is fascinated by a different what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies?

In You Can Stop Humming Now , Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families. A grandfather whose failing heart has been replaced by a battery-operated pump; a salesman who found himself a kidney donor on social media; a college student who survived a near fatal overdose and returned home, alive but not the same; and a young woman navigating an adulthood she never thought she'd live to see -- these moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health.

Riveting, gorgeously told, and deeply personal, You Can Stop Humming Now is a compassionate, uncompromising look at the choices and realities that many of us, and our families, may one day face.

About the Author

Daniela Lamas is a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. Following graduation from Harvard College, she went on to earn her MD at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where she also completed internship and residency. She then returned to Boston for her subspecialty fellowship. She has worked as a medical reporter at the Miami Herald and is frequently published in the New York Times. This is her first book.