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How We Age : A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

ISBN: 9780306818530 | 0306818531
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: DA CAPO PRESS INC
Pub. Date: 2/1/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin Nuland, Marc Agronin writes luminously and unforgettably of life as he sees it as a doctor. His beat is a nursing home in Miami that some would dismiss as "God's waiting room." Nothing in the young doctor's medical training had quite prepared him for what he was to discover there. As Agronin first learned from ninety-eight-year-old Esther and, later, from countless others, the true scales of aging aren't one-sidedyou can't list the problems without also tallying the hopes and promises. Drawing on mov... MORE
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A Note to the Readerp. ix
Introductionp. 1
What Is Old?
Heaven Can't Waitp. 17
Age I Mustp. 28
Long Time Dead?p. 46
Old Age Rounds
Isaac, Erik, and Isakp. 63
Annabe, Bartleby, and the Doctor Who Flunks Agingp. 88
Joseph Red Hairp. 99
Old Pickled Brainp. 112
Lousyp. 125
The Strange but True Case of Dawson da Vincip. 131
Memory
If I Forget Theep. 141
Savant, of Sortsp. 159
Strength in Numbersp. 165
Old Soldiersp. 168
Memories, False and Fixedp. 173
Wisdom
The Eldersp. 185
Bereftp. 207
Just Wordsp. 211
Liar, Liarp. 215
Rules of Fourp. 220
A Million Sparks
Final Actsp. 231
Mendedp. 239
Lessons from Firep. 249
The Seamstressp. 256
Treesp. 267
Epiloguep. 273
Acknowledgmentsp. 279
Notesp. 285
Selected Bibliographyp. 297
Credits and Permissionsp. 301
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Marc Agronin, MD, a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Medical School, is the psychiatrist at the Miami Jewish Home & Hospital. His articles have appeared in the New York Times and many other periodicals. He lives in Cooper City, Florida.


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