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A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old
Da Capo Press
February 2011
On Sale: February 1, 2011
320 pages ISBN: 0306818531 EAN: 9780306818530 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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-sided—you can’t
list the problems without also tallying the hopes and
promises. Drawing on moving personal experiences and
in-depth interviews with pioneers in the field, Agronin
conjures a spellbinding look at what aging means today—how
our bodies and brains age, and the very way we understand aging.
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