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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
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About That Good Night: Life And Medicine In The Eleventh
Product Description “A profound exploration of what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose.” —People “Visceral and lyrical.” —The Atlantic As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between days spent waiting for her mother, an anesthesiologist, to exit the OR, and evenings spent in conversation with her parents about their faith, Puri witnessed the tension between medicine's impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life's temporality. And it was that tension that eventually drew Puri, a passionate but unsatisfied medical student, to palliative medicine--a new specialty attempting to translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care. Interweaving evocative stories of Puri's family and the patients she cares for, That Good Night is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us. Review Praise for That Good Night “Visceral and lyrical . . . In a high-tech world, [Puri’s] specialty is not cures, but questions—about pain, about fraught prospects, about what ‘miracle’ might really mean. Her tool is language, verbal and physical. Wielding carefully measured words, can she guide but not presume to dictate? Heeding the body’s signals, not just beeping monitors, can she distinguish between a fixable malady and impending death? Puri the doctor knows that masterful control isn’t the point. For Puri the writer, her prose proves that it is.” —The Atlantic “A beautiful, lyrical narrative that provides great insight on living more fully.” —Forbes "The most powerful tools in her practice of palliative care are not scalpels or syringes: They are words. In a book full of both sadness and enlightenment, Puri's compassion and honesty shine." —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Honest and brutal, Sunita Puri’s book is also beautiful and deeply reassuring. . . . [ That Good Night] will change how you see mortality and end-of-life decisions, and how you discuss these subjects with loved ones.” —Spirituality & Health “Puri writes about how palliative care specialists are working to change medicine from within—teaching other doctors how to talk to patients about their hopes and fears, not just their disease and treatment. Palliative care, she says, gives doctors, patients and their families a new vocabulary with which to talk about the way life's goals can shift when you have a serious illness and how to plan for a good final chapter.” —NPR “Every chapter exudes Puri's compassion for you, as much as for patients. . . . Be prepared for some of the stories in That Good Night to unleash pent-up emotions. . . . In the care of seriously ill patients, you will see suffering. That Good Night will inspire you to recognize and respond to suffering with compassion. Whether caring for patients on your own or with the support of a palliative care team, fluency in the language of suffering will help you preserve compassion in medicine.” —Oncology Times “Sunita Puri’s luminous, lyrical memoir is a literary introduction to the work of palliative care. . . . Puri joins the circle of articulate physician-writers who movingly portray the wonders and limits of modern medicine and the emotional, physical, and spiritual sacrifices individuals make to practice medicine well. . . . Her stories, combined with her sense that we’re guided by a benevolent force beyond comprehension, point toward love’s power and life’s fragility.” —The Christian Century “An impressive debut . . . Puri makes you feel (and sometimes sob), but most importantly, she does the hard work of bringing humanity to medicine. Her commitment to normalizing conversations abou
