How We Age : A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old
ISBN: 9780306818530 | 0306818531
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: DA CAPO PRESS INC
Pub. Date: 2/1/2011
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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
| A Note to the Reader | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What Is Old? | |
| Heaven Can't Wait | p. 17 |
| Age I Must | p. 28 |
| Long Time Dead? | p. 46 |
| Old Age Rounds | |
| Isaac, Erik, and Isak | p. 63 |
| Annabe, Bartleby, and the Doctor Who Flunks Aging | p. 88 |
| Joseph Red Hair | p. 99 |
| Old Pickled Brain | p. 112 |
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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