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That Good Night
by Sunita Puri
A palliative-care physician's memoir: her immigrant parents, her training, the patients who taught her to speak about mortality. Lyrical and honest.
Read it if…
you want a doctor's inner journey toward honest conversations.
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Skip it if…
you want a guide.
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Three things you will actually use
- Medicine must learn to talk about death.
- Presence is treatment.
- Honesty is care.
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Read the chapters on learning the language.
Our verdict
Puri's memoir.
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