The Measure Of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration Of Illness
Jerome Groopman's “The Measure of Our Days” is a compelling look at what we can learn about living when life itself can no longer be taken for granted because of severe illness. Jerome Groopman, M.D., one of the world's leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His laboratory helped to develop the new protease inhibitors for the treatment of AIDS, and in January of 1998 his laboratory identified another gene that appears to play a role in breast cancer.
Groopman has written extensively for many publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and The New Republic and Time magazine as well as medical and scientific journals. “The Measure of Our Days” tells the reader about Groopman's technique with patients, not directly, but through stories. Groopman takes his title from a Psalm of David, Psalm 39, "Lord, make me to know mine......
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