That Good Night Author:Sunita Puri Sunita Puri witnesses the tension between medicine's impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spirited embrace of life's temporality. It was that tension that drew Puri, a passionate but unsatisfied medical student, to palliative medicine- a new speciality attempting to translate the border between medical intervention and qualit... more »y of life. Interweaving evocative stories of Puri"s family and the patients she cares for, this book is a stunning meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well, arming readers with information that will transform how we communicate with our doctors about what matters most to us. A profound meditation on life and medicine in the eleventh hour, a problem many of us will face.« less