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By Sherwin B. Nuland
224 pp, $25.95
New York, NY, Random House, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6478-6

JAMA. 2008;300(10):1213-1214.

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This book is the best read I have had all summer. It is superb in style, subject, and focus. I am convinced that everyone in the healing professions should read this delightful book, written by practicing surgeon Sherwin B. Nuland. Nuland graduated from Yale University Medical School in 1955 and joined its clinical faculty in the Department of Surgery in 1962. He published his first book, The Origins of Anesthesia, in 1983, and from that time on he has written many books dealing with diverse subjects related to the health care profession. His How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter won the National Book award for nonfiction in 1994. He was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995.

Nuland's most recent book, The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine, is a series of essays on diverse subjects related to his experiences dealing with different aspects . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Collins Harvey, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Kennedy Institute of Bioethics (Emeritus)
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
harveyjc@georgetown.edu

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