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That Good Night

Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

Sunita Puri 2019 / Beaverton Library 610.92 PUR

• med student studies palliative medicine
• p004 4th year UCSF med school, then three years of internal medicine
• p005 much time for tests and records, little time with patients
• p007 patient Donna: would a shorter life be better without dialysis

• p008 Dr. McCormick; "two medicines help prevent gasping, toxins make you sleep, death after loss of consciousness, a merciful way to die."

• p009 patient dies after praying with chaplain
• p010 weeks before end of med school, Puri experienced caring for a dying patient
• p011 living well in the time remaining
• p015 Mother from Mumbai, grandparents West Punjab Hindu refugees, sectarian violence killed 1M - 2M people
• p016 grandfather taxidriver, 5 children in 2 room flat, 7yo daughter/mother decided to be doctor
• p017 begging and scholarships Mumbai medical school
• p020 author: I followed my mother into medicine because that's where she was

• p022 Mr. Tan, patient writes: You are here in morning, afternoon, night. When do you go home?

• p029 family meeting with wife and daughter (UC Davis)
• p034 Puri attempts to communicate seriousness, Mr. Tan climbs (impossibly!) out of bed, says he WILL see is daughter graduate in 2 years

• p40 I will suffer if you give up on me. As long as I am with them I will be OK

• p42 Two years later with Mr. Tan, watching daughter graduate

• p43 I told you I would get out of here!

• p45 Second year, choose specialty training?
• p47 palliative medicine changed focus to quality of life rather than last months of life
• p49 parents (Anesthesiologist mom) dismissive of palliative care
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