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Dear life : a doctor's story of love and loss / Rachel Clarke.

by Clarke, Rachel (Physician), author.

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New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2020.

Clarke, Rachel (Physician)

Physicians -- England -- Biography.

Palliative treatment.

9781250764515 (hardcover) :

1250764513 (hardcover) :

320 pages ; 22 cm

First U.S. edition.

Prologue -- Near misses -- Flesh and blood -- Skirting death -- Ghost owl -- Black Wednesday -- A Numb3rs game -- Storytelling -- Light in the dark -- A piece of work -- Clutching at straws -- The Price of Love -- Wonder -- The man with the broken heart -- Gratitude -- Dear life -- Postscript.

"In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter. Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand-as a child, as a doctor, as a human being-how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice"--

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