You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and In Between
Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical-care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is fascinated by a different story: What comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months or years as a result of our treatments and technologies? In You Can Stop Humming Now , Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families whose moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health.